MnGCA

[merkman]

[firstbass]

[MN_Cavepeople]

[pfalstad]

Proof 0 = 1

0 = 0 + 0 + 0 + 0 ...
0 = (1 + -1) + (1 + -1) + (1 + -1) + ...
rearrange parentheses:
0 = 1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + ...
0 = 1
QED

I predict that firstbass will say that this proof isn't valid because of the "associative law" or some other mathematical mumbo-jumbo.

[MN_Cavepeople]

[LucidOndine]

I wasn't aware of the fact that when children are born they are already 1 year old

Those hacks with an agenda seem to disagree with what you're saying: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invalid_proof
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[MN_Cavepeople]

[firstbass]

Watch out, people, I'm gonna go f****** nuts in here. Picking up British waitresses in chain restaurants, math-trolling internet forums -- that's mathmagic, right there.

I'm a little bummed, though, that merkman gets credit for the hijack.

OK. 1.

[MN_Cavepeople]

[LucidOndine]

Proof by intimidation, ehh Cavepeople?
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[bflentje]

One of my favorite satirical math/pchem stories... don't know if it was really used in a classroom..

A thermodynamics professor had written a take home exam for his
graduate students. It had one question:

Is heck exothermic or endothermic? Support your answer with a proof.

Most of the students wrote proofs of their beliefs using Boyle's Law or
some variant. One student, however wrote the following:

First, we postulate that if souls exist, then they must have some mass.
If they do, then a mole of souls can also have a mass. So, at what rate
are souls moving into heck and at what rate are souls leaving? I think
that we can safely assume that once a soul gets to heck, it will not
leave. Therefore, no souls are leaving. As for souls entering heck,
lets look at the different religions that exist in the world today.
Some of these religions state that if you are not a member of their
religion, you will go to heck. Since there are more than one of these
religions and people do not belong to more than one religion, we can
project that all people and all souls go to heck. With birth and death
rates as they are, we can expect the number of souls in heck to increase
exponentially. Now, we look at the rate of change in volume in heck.
Boyle's Law states that in order for the temperature and pressure in heck
to stay the same, the ratio of the mass of souls and volume needs to stay
constant.

#1 So, if heck is expanding at a slower rate than the rate at which
souls enter heck, then the temperature and pressure in heck will
increase until all heck breaks loose.

#2 Of course, if heck is expanding at a rate faster than the increase of
souls in heck, then the temperature and pressure will drop until heck
freezes over.

So which is it? If we accept the postulate given me by Therese Banyan
during Freshman year, and take into account the fact that I still have
not succeeded in dating her, then #2 cannot be true, and heck is exothermic.

The student got the only A.

inappropriate content removed by SB on 5/6/08

[firstbass]

[LucidOndine]

Hah!

It'd be great if Forum Moderation by Intimidation really existed because then I wouldn't have to lock, move, edit, and redirect things. For the time being I'll just continue to stare down wayward posts made by lollygagers, miscreants, and worst of all... mathematicians
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