Trouble in understanding the result of $\lim\limits_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{x}{0}$ as shown on Wolfram Alpha

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So in wolfram alpha it says that $\lim\limits_{x \to 0} \frac{x}{0} = \infty^\sim$ where $\infty^\sim$ symbol is complex infinity.

I find it hard to understand this symbol and the concept, can someone please explain why this happens and why it is undefined.

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This happens because we do not know how dividing by 0 looks like and it is simply not defined. You may argue $\lim_{x \rightarrow 0} \frac{x}{x}$ is the same form as you stated. But that is untrue because in your case, we have the fraction a type of $\frac{\rightarrow 0}{exact \;0}$ which is as good as dividing 2 by 0, because in the end $\rightarrow 0$ is still a finite number, just infinitesimally small. And as you do not know what the result of dividing by 0 is, we cannot predict what exactly the outcome may be, imaginary, real or complex