Everything you thought is wrong

Phalanx · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:21

yer_averagejoe said:
what? think about it for a minute.

2 x -2 = -4

to times that by -1 send its right back and cancels the negative

whats not to get?

just seemed like a clever thing to say

yer_averagejoe · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:21

oh.. sorry. its late

Phalanx · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:22

yer_averagejoe said:
oh.. sorry. its late

very late sir

and thanks to this thread, I reminded myself what binomial expansion is

Cybermyk · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:24

Actually I can prove that 2 + 2 = 5

Take two pieces of string with two knots in each. Tie them together and how many knots do you have?

Sleepy · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:44

Cybermyk said:
Actually I can prove that 2 + 2 = 5

Take two pieces of string with two knots in each. Tie them together and how many knots do you have?

err thats 2+2+1=5, which isn't very exciting

Nix · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:45

/votes for the worst thread ever award.

yer_averagejoe · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:47

Nix said:
/votes for the worst thread ever award.

seconded

Aod · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:54

Nix said:
/votes for the worst thread ever award.

thirded

Cybermyk · 18 Dec 2006 at 02:58

I went fourth and multiplied

robmiller · 18 Dec 2006 at 03:01

voted 1

Cybermyk said:
I went fourth and multiplied

horrifying

Berserker · 18 Dec 2006 at 03:09

Nix said:
/votes for the worst thread ever award.

Agreed. Dodgy abuses of elipsis and whatnot for the lose. You can't just move parentheses because you feel like it and ignore recursion.

a²-b²=ab-b²
(a-b)(a+b)=b(a-b)

I can't remember how to deal with the LHS of the first equation so the LHS of the second may or may not be correct. However, since 0x = 0y for any x and y, equal or not, the maths fails at that point.

0=(1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)...
then when you move the parenthesis
0=1+(-1+1)+(-1+1)+(-1+1)...

Rubbish. You can't just magic a +1 out of nowhere. Elipsis are not valid in mathematics other than to represent continuation of a sequence.

£1=100p
...

You weren't involved with running the financial accounts of Enron were you?

megakid · 18 Dec 2006 at 06:10

For the second one, you can move the parenthesis but you'll see that whilst each paired 1 - 1 = 0, you still have the "1 +" at the beginning but you also would have a "- 1" at the end... which would equal 0 after getting rid of the paired (1 - 1) statements.

Antecer · 18 Dec 2006 at 06:40

theDave said:
Ill start off with a simple statement: 2=1.

Its true:

1=1 = correct

2=1 = NUH UH

MasterMike · 18 Dec 2006 at 08:58

In A-level, one of our pure maths teachers wrote out a "proof" similar to the one originally posted, then thoroughly chastised us when we looked marginally impressed rather than instantly spot it's nonsense. We were supposed to be a top group!

neil3k · 18 Dec 2006 at 11:59

And the point in posting that was ?

Just confused me. .

sarutobi · 18 Dec 2006 at 16:35

just a wee 'fun' thing i found on the net guys jeez

Anim · 18 Dec 2006 at 17:52

except its completely wrong and when you put it on a forum full of people who actually have a clue about maths, well ... you can see the result. BUT, post it on myspace somewhere and you'll get the reaction you wanted

Zip · 18 Dec 2006 at 18:06

OMG YOUR ALL NERDS AND GEEKS!!!!! :eek:

Jotun · 18 Dec 2006 at 18:18

Nix said:
/votes for the worst thread ever award.

+2

(was gonna be +1 but 1=2)

and since 1=2 and 2=1+1 then 2=2+2 correct? which is then equal to 2=(2+2) + (2+2) therefore as it is recursive we can conclude that 2=infinity. As stated before 1=2, so 1=infinity.

As all numbers are a multiple of 1 therefore all numbers= infinity.

What a load of rubbish!

SiriusB · 18 Dec 2006 at 18:32

"Everything you thought is wrong"

Which should have meant this thread is wrong. And it is. So why did we all come in here? Hmm!?

SiriusB