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Oooooo.

Why does 'A' equal 'B' to begin with?

Algebra doesn't like 0s. 2 (a-b) is 2*0.

Hence your final line really reads 0 = 0.

Is b = 0?

I did say Oooo and that can be intrepted as 00000..


BTW, I can't find the spell check on this forum...lol

It's been deactivated I am afraid.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
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Wrong. The last step is false because (a-b)=0

Got there first, KK!

Originally posted by Ushgarak
It's been deactivated I am afraid.

OH GOD NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!

now when you count ,you can be a genuis and say
1,1,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 etc

People seriously still fall for that? palm

Wow, I knew it was false and incorrect when I was 10 years old and learning algebra.

I know people have already said it, but to believe that requires some serious math fail. Plug in any random number for a and b and you'll see that. If they're the same, then (a-b) must be zero. That's...not even algebra. That's basic arithmetic.

you be suprised, i proved a teach wrong with this equation and it took some intense time and study before she realized it

Originally posted by Ushgarak
It's been deactivated I am afraid.
Out of curiosity, why?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
you be suprised, i proved a teach wrong with this equation and it took some intense time and study before she realized it Well, you didn't "prove them wrong", you just confused them.

So how does one prove someone wrong with this thing?

Originally posted by StyleTime
Out of curiosity, why?

Server strain, I think. Plus most browsers have them built in now.

Originally posted by StyleTime
Out of curiosity, why?

It was causing problems, and Raz decided that, because most modern browsers have spellcheck as a feature, he'd deactivate it.

Yeah. This is easy. Now, here's a tougher one. This one was presented as a challenge in a calculus class I took once. See if you can find the flaw...

http://uoregon.edu/~jcomes/1equals0.pdf

^theres cleary no flaw

Um, there quite definitely is...

Originally posted by King Kandy
Yeah. This is easy. Now, here's a tougher one. This one was presented as a challenge in a calculus class I took once. See if you can find the flaw...

http://uoregon.edu/~jcomes/1equals0.pdf

Oooh, I remember that one from calc.

It's been a few years though, it'd probably take me a while to find where the flaw is.

theres one somewhere i think that proves infinity=0

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
theres one somewhere i think that proves infinity=0

Please stop saying that it "proves" something. That's not how proving stuff works.

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
theres one somewhere i think that proves infinity=0
You came up with that, but it was horribly flawed and not even based on math principles.

Originally posted by Peach
Server strain, I think. Plus most browsers have them built in now.
Originally posted by Bardock42
It was causing problems, and Raz decided that, because most modern browsers have spellcheck as a feature, he'd deactivate it.
Great. Now I feel jackass-like for being unaware of my browser's spell checker.

I thinked my posts no be good and wuld suffar frohm pour speling.

Also, grammar.

Originally posted by King Kandy
You came up with that, but it was horribly flawed and not even based on math principles.

oh man, forgive my ignorance on this one, but didn't Godel show something along the lines of 2=1 or that you could come up with crazy stuff like that?

x/0 equals infinity

so basically we cant define infinity untill we build a computer capable of calculating and infinit amount of information?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
x/0 equals infinity
No, it doesn't. x/0 doesn't equal anything. It's indeterminate.

Lim x->Infinity of x/0 = infinity, though.

Originally posted by inimalist
oh man, forgive my ignorance on this one, but didn't Godel show something along the lines of 2=1 or that you could come up with crazy stuff like that?
I don't have the education to really understand Godel's work. Though I never heard that particular idea as being his.

Originally posted by King Kandy
No, it doesn't. x/0 doesn't equal anything. It's indeterminate.

Lim x->Infinity of x/0 = infinity, though.
That's not right.

Originally posted by Bardock42
That's not right.
No, it isn't at all. What I meant to say was,

Lim x->0 of C/x = Infinity

Where C is any constant.

Originally posted by King Kandy
I don't have the education to really understand Godel's work. Though I never heard that particular idea as being his.

me either, I think it is about there being no truly closed systems of logic, and the result is "proofs" that are totally wacky, but ya...

Originally posted by inimalist
me either, I think it is about there being no truly closed systems of logic, and the result is "proofs" that are totally wacky, but ya...
There's something called the principle of explosion, where you can prove anything if you assume a logical inconsistency as the starting point.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Yeah. This is easy. Now, here's a tougher one. This one was presented as a challenge in a calculus class I took once. See if you can find the flaw...

http://uoregon.edu/~jcomes/1equals0.pdf
...**** you, KK.


lol

Originally posted by King Kandy
No, it isn't at all. What I meant to say was,

Lim x->0 of C/x = Infinity

Where C is any constant.

Yeah, I figured.

Originally posted by King Kandy
There's something called the principle of explosion, where you can prove anything if you assume a logical inconsistency as the starting point.

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/principle_of_explosion.png


There sure is...

Originally posted by Enyalus
...**** you, KK.


lol
Can't figure it out, I take it.

Originally posted by King Kandy
Can't figure it out, I take it.
Not a chance. I didn't have high school calculus and I got a D in college calc. That had something to do with my professor being Russian and me not being able to understand anything she said, but still.

Yeah. Not working for me.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Got there first, KK! You know, at first I thought your posts were by AC.

Kinda elevated my perception when I realised it's Ushgarak.

Originally posted by lord xyz
You know, at first I thought your posts were by AC.

Kinda elevated my perception when I realised it's Ushgarak.

facepalm

Yeah, I figured it out then realized that the thread was on page 3 and lots of others did too.

Originally posted by Enyalus
Not a chance. I didn't have high school calculus and I got a D in college calc. That had something to do with my professor being Russian and me not being able to understand anything she said, but still.

Yeah. Not working for me.
I don't actually know the answer either, I never could figure it out even though my grades in calculus were pretty good, and I took them only a little bit ago so it's still pretty fresh in my mind.

Damn. I think the answer is actually just that the proof didn't add a "C" upon applying integration by parts.