2=1

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

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.

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

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?

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.

Originally posted by Bardock42
That's not right.

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...

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

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.

There sure is...

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

lol

Originally posted by King Kandy
Can't figure it out, I take it.

Yeah. Not working for me.

Originally posted by Ushgarak
Got there first, KK!

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