Math is all lies...

[flyboy 28]

Sure, 'cause that makes sense.

I guess it dosen't have the full effect just reading it.

[H]

Right, Rim; sense and effect...
Terran: holds up middle and index fingers,
"How many fingers am I holding up?"
Alien: Frowns and stares with cross eyes; has no working joints to straighten index finger but manages to straighten middle,
"Nuk int dah aps zee nok bintuh -- nok intzee min? (Don't know what 2 means in your language -- do you understand this?)" :-X
Of course, his mathmatical rendering is quite different, actually well-meaning...

[GeForce]

Here is something you can ponder though.

a = b
a^2 = a*b
a^2-b^2 = a*b-b^2
(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
(a+b) = b
a+a = a
2a = a
2 = 1

Sorry about this but, that doesn't work. If we number the lines as follows:

1) a = b
2) a^2 = a*b
3) a^2-b^2 = a*b-b^2
4) (a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
5) (a+b) = b
6) a+a = a
7) 2a = a
2 = 1

Proceeding from line 4 to line 5 involved division by (a-b), but because a=b, (a-b) = 0. You can't devide by 0



Jon

[notloste]

You got it GeForce!  Very good  ;)

[Flt.Lt.Andrew]

Okay. Cos I''m one of a handful of people who understood this, I'll make a few comments:

a) The decimals you've used are a rounding! Just as 1/3 is 33.333333333333repeater, 3/3 actually= 99.9999999999999999 repeater.
So, what you've dicovered is the vaule of rounding things up!

b) Good work.


A.

[GeForce]

This one is basically the same. It looks alright until the end where you divide by (a-b-c), which is 0.

Proof that a equals b

we start with:
a - b = c

now, square both sides:
a2 - 2ab + b2 = c2

since a - b = c, substitute:
a2 - 2ab + b2 = (a - b)c

write out the multiplication:
a2 - 2ab + b2 = ac - bc

rearranging all, we get:
a2 - ab - ac = ab - b2 - bc

factorize both members:
a(a - b - c) = b(a - b - c)

cancel the common factor:
a = b



Jon

[Stormtropper]

Heh...this is why I love Calculus, you get to assume things

We can get ever closer to a number, without actually reaching it, but the difference becomes so insignifigant that we just throw it out and pretend that we reached the number

It acutally makes more sense too, because we live in a real physical world (well, some of us, no names ), there is a diference between 'theoretical' and 'reality'...

...for example...you are facing a door (wow...how many of us actually do that? ) and you are 10 feet away...and you walk twards it...

...you will, at one point, walk half the distance, and be 5 feet from the door, and then you will half that distance and be 2.5 ft from the door, and so on...

...on paper...you will always be halfing the distance, so you can never reach the door (maybe this is why none of us have a life )...

BTW...did I mention I love calculus? At this point, I'm allowed to say 'that it is impossible to be physically 0.000000000000000125 inches from the door, and f**k all this math s**t, I'm gonna go take a nap'...

...btw...you alos get to divide by zero and make up numbers if you can't get them...

...I love calculus!

[Katahu]

*Katahu's head explodes*

*KABOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM*

[Stormtropper]

^^^

Haha...I made doc go insane!

Wheres my cookie?

[H]

Quit trying to take the credit... like the rest of us, he's been around here way too long to have just gone there.