submitted by Sang on 02.17.2006 in Jokes/Funny Images
Please do not show this to your math teacher. The proof seems true, but it really isn’t. Look carefully at the fourth step.
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February 18th, 2006 at 17:00:57
If a=b, then a-b=0. You’re dividing by 0, dumbass!!!
February 18th, 2006 at 17:08:24
i know this proof is flawed; that’s why i filed it under funny stuff, dumbass. read before commenting.
February 23rd, 2006 at 12:19:18
Hey Sang,
Dude, you changed it, I read it before you changed it. Previously it didn’t say “The proof seems true, but it really isn’t. Look carefully at the fourth step”. It said something like “introducing extraneous values”. You’re just trying to cover your ass after being showed up by a chick
February 23rd, 2006 at 15:45:42
you caught me.the point is that i know that the proof doesn’t work…and she was being an ass.
July 17th, 2006 at 05:17:46
LMAO u guys are funny
October 5th, 2006 at 03:41:37
and in the 3rd to 4th lines… ab - b2 equals 0 not b(a-b) unless b does equal 0!!!
October 6th, 2006 at 23:05:20
not it works……….using limts you can divide by something that will eventually be zero but isnt yet………the proof works but in an odd way im sure its all conditional…..but w/e your proof is not flawed at all
January 20th, 2007 at 16:12:07
lets say that a and b both equal five ok.in the fourth step it would says that (a+b)(a-b)=b(a-b) technically it is right because it equals 0 then if you divide both sides by (a-b) then you get (a-b)=b so in all reality this equation really works
December 10th, 2007 at 08:58:47
1/2 > 1/4
1/2 > (1/2)^2
ln(1/2) > 2ln (1/2)
1>2
January 22nd, 2008 at 17:00:03
ln .5 = a negative #
so you get -1 > -2
March 8th, 2008 at 21:48:30
Does anyone remember the name of the guy who originally made the proof subsequently creating a new branch of mathematics which lasted like 40 years untill the proof was found false?