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You don't even need the complex part for this. You can do the infinity-projection trick on the real numbers alone as well: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projectively_extended_real_lin...

A similar trick (point at infinity or ideal point) is used in projective geometry to distinguish between directions (vectors) and places (points) by using coordinates only: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Projective_geometry

But if you actually want to do calculations with infinities and infinitesimals the surreal numbers might be better suited for that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surreal_number

Downside is that now 0⋅∞ is undefined so you’ve introduced a new ‘impossibility’

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