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Also just defining division to be whatever you want in the moment is not actually pragmatic, it's stupid and trivial. There's a reason we define a symplectic manifold the way we do. There's not a reason to say `1/0 = 0`, aside from the fact that the Pony designers didn't care to find a good solution to the problem.


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