Declaring it as a new definition was what annoyed me... Which I found incredibly silly once I leaned about negative exponentiation and could now deduce the pat

Declaring it as a new definition was what annoyed me... Which I found incredibly silly once I leaned about negative exponentiation and could now deduce the pattern. Similarly, 0/0 became much more tractable to me once I learned L'Hôpital's rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'H%C3%B4pital's_rule https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L'H%C3%B4pital's_rule