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#26 2011-11-16 16:14:16

joefarebrother
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Re: The Square Root Of Negative One & Other Crazy Math Paradoxes.

SeptimusHeap wrote:

Here's one I learned, it will make no sense to people who haven't finished algebra 1 yet:

x=1, y=1
x=y
x²=xy multiplying by x
x²-y²=xy-y² subtracting y²
(x+y)(x-y)=xy-y² using the special difference of squares factoring rule
(x+y)(x-y)=y(x-y) factoring the other side by pulling out y
x+y=y dividing by (x-y)
x=0 subtracting y from each side
but doesn't x=1? so 0=1

QED. can you find the flaw?

If x=y, what is the value of (x-y)?
What is the only number that you cannot divide anything by?


randomnumber wrote:

0^0

Yes, I like this one, because 0 raised to the power of anything is 0, but anything raised to the power of 0 is 1. So what is 0^0?
0? or 1?

0^0 ~ nothing has no power


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#27 2011-11-16 16:21:37

Daroach1
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Re: The Square Root Of Negative One & Other Crazy Math Paradoxes.

Pi backwards is pie 3.14, not upsidedown, backwards. http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQX-EhOmlPCL1Y97c4XNYrJ-DfP64uR8npxPF9_ZNte_tp3zVT9FA

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#28 2011-11-19 19:47:08

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Re: The Square Root Of Negative One & Other Crazy Math Paradoxes.

bump


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