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A very easy way to improve your writing would be to separate your text into paragraphs. It doesn't take any intelligence but just awareness of norms.
Math.stackexchange exists for that purpose.
Not everybody is good at math. That's okay. Scott Alexander who's an influential person in this community writes on his blog:
Math is about abstract thinking. That means "common sense" often doesn't work. One has to let go of naive assumptions and accept answers that don't seem obvious.
In many cases the ability to trust that established mathematical finding are correct even if you can't follow the proof that establishes them is an useful ability. It makes life easier.
In addition to what CCC wrote http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/26445/division-by-0 is a good explanation of the case.
I hope you don't mind that I have now separated my comment into paragraphs. It's such an obvious problem in hindsight.
Thank you for your reply! It encouraged me a lot!
Accepting feedback and directly applying it is great :)