This makes me think… if we consider dividing as an action, even when dividing by one you are still using a cutting action, you just miss the apple. But with dividing by 0, it’s one less cutting action… so you are taking away a cutting action which means that it should join instead. So, 10 / -2 should really equal 20, because you’re reversing a /2 cutting action…
You can cut something into 2 pieces, or 1 piece, but you can’t cut something into 0 pieces.
Absent object permanence mitigation ;)
This makes me think… if we consider dividing as an action, even when dividing by one you are still using a cutting action, you just miss the apple. But with dividing by 0, it’s one less cutting action… so you are taking away a cutting action which means that it should join instead. So, 10 / -2 should really equal 20, because you’re reversing a /2 cutting action…