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It’s just as true a statement to say each of those 0 people at a billion slices of pie.
However, with these types of word problems, there’s usually the implication that the pie is now gone. There’s kind of a problem figuring out where the pie went when nobody ate any pie.
The pie went bad and disintegrated. Its energy got reconverted into the 0 that is all.
If its not clear i was not being all that serious with my last comment. Re constructing math from my own first the principles is something i prefer to do as a hypothetical mind game rather then to find a real profound breakthrough.