Friday 6 March 2009

when math collapses

of course this is not true la..
can YOU spot the mistake?

7 comments:

less than three said...

My math teacher would go LOAS!!!

Yes, it does sound like profanity.

Lack Of Algebraic Skills

x^2 - x^2 = x^2 - x^2
0 = 0


do not bother to factor the equation.

Unknown said...

whoaa. if it wasn't for Bernice, i would be still be thinking why the equation not true. lol!

Unknown said...

haarrr.... jadi?

Unknown said...

where got 1/0... O.o

Unknown said...

then how is bernice wrong... O.o what's the difference between hers and yours?

KimKu said...

dividing by zero is not allowed in math, its like one of the main key concepts in math. you can if u want to, but the result would be a disaster. the number does not exist, cannot be defined, it cannot even be expressed as 'infinity'. you can check out wikipedia-division by zero :)

bernice is right, but it 0=0, then i should be able to end up with the same result if i were to distribute the variables in different way. correct? but it turned out to be 1=2, so i asked, why??

Unknown said...

i understood the zero part. so you're saying at the second line, instead of crossing each other out, we already get.. disaster. ahh?

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