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Stuka_Kommandant
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Sat Aug 01, 2009 4:12 pm Post subject:
Dami wrote:
Ten points for A. Einstuk
"... from 5 possible ones!" - As my grandpa would analyze now with mathematical astuteness !
btw, Dami: ROFL³ about your YouTube_link .
erkan
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Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:42 am Post subject:
Pesadelo wrote:
Pesadelo wrote:
Be the infinite series...
erkan
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Daniem
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Posted:
Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:38 pm Post subject:
Math isn't boring, I am How come?
Well, that's nice prof. Stuka, but it don't follow a correct logic. What you wrote is a sequence of variable substitutions, i.e., it's just a linear sequence calculation. So, it's senseless to compare left and right hands of the equation, because it doesn't have two sizes, only one. It'd be more like this:
3a-2a=
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=3b+3c-2b-2c, the end. Or,
3a-2a=0
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3b+3c-2b-2c=0, the end.
Pesadelo
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Posted:
Wed Aug 05, 2009 10:47 am Post subject:
irule got the point right in the begining.
The problem there is the "(a-thing) x 0 = (another-thing) x 0" stuff. Maths (and matematicians) hates this situation. In logic it is called a "tautological assertion" - that is, it is unuseful and claims nothing.
Sorry, Daniem, but seems to me that the conclusion "3a-2a=0" is not a valid one. Ein_StuK's proof is, for all effects, right and its flaw is only visible at the light of the impossibility of further considerations in presence of a 0/0.
On the proof I had post in this same topic, the problem is another though related. Infinites are another pain in the ass and have to be treted very carefully. Isn't for less that the 0/0 above is a problem.
Anyway, I like very much this sort of mathematical jokes. They help us to keep ourselves alert against illusions. Tks Ein_StuK!
Obs: We are playing so below the waistline that Pyrates hadn't gave us his enlightenment on the subject.
diginferno
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Wed Aug 05, 2009 2:02 pm Post subject:
Which proves that 2 + 2 = 5 (for extremely large values of 2) _________________ diginferno
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