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Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by jonaji(m): 6:52pm On May 09, 2015
Very Creative I tell you.... So students in the house.... You can use it to challenge ur teachers grin grin grin

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by adewaletb3(m): 6:58pm On May 09, 2015
So_fucking wrong. Why would you prove like a goat

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Princecalm(m): 7:00pm On May 09, 2015
Use it to challenge your lecturer and see what comes out at the end of the semester.

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 7:01pm On May 09, 2015
He started failing it from the point where he struck out 10 and -10,the 10 on top is supposed to equate to -1 when divided by -1 which when put into the equation, will give you 19/10.
And secondly, you cant stricke out numbers that way. They are in brackets in their own different equations i.e an equation in an equation.
So my point is, the person who provided this so called 'proof' is a dullard
May vice elementals from the seventh heavens strike the next person that quotes me with madness

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 8:29pm On May 09, 2015
mathematically correct, scientifically wrong

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by NosoChic: 8:36pm On May 09, 2015
Mathematically correct .....I love the stance on negating status quo.

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Jumbledwords: 8:40pm On May 09, 2015
Lol, everything was okay till he/she decided to expand 10^2 - 10^2

*Modified

Nothing wrong with the expansion, it's what happens with the resulting brackets that is the bone of contention.

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 8:40pm On May 09, 2015
acrobatic defence grin

you can actually know that this is a Nigerian by the colour of the detached ruled page from an exercise book.

This Jonathan government sef....

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Gabrielsylar(m): 9:03pm On May 09, 2015
ode

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by wonda26(m): 9:29pm On May 09, 2015
cupid1:
He started failing it from the point where he struck out 10 and -10,the 10 on top is supposed to equate to -1 when divided by -1 which when put into the equation, will give you 19/10.
And secondly, you cant stricke out numbers that way. They are in brackets in their own different equations i.e an equation in an equation.
So my point is, the person who provided this so called 'proof' is a dullard
Bros, you fall my hand. cry

Did you do maths at all?

Unfortunately, you my friend, seems to be the dullard undecided

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by TONYE001(m): 9:30pm On May 09, 2015
Nice..

The mathematical principles applied were TOTALLY correct.

I would not fail this student if I were the teacher... smiley

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by wonda26(m): 9:32pm On May 09, 2015
Jumbledwords:
Lol, everything was okay till he/she decided to expand 10^2 - 10^2
10^2 - 10^2 = (10 + 10)(10-10) is very correct.

In mathematics, it is called 'Difference of two squares'


If you doubt, try simplifying the right hand side of the equation

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by godofOrijin: 9:34pm On May 09, 2015
Creative but wrong.
I could arrive @ 1 by doing the following... (10+10)(10-10) / (10+10)(10-10) =1

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 9:34pm On May 09, 2015
wonda26:

Bros, you fall my hand. cry

Did you do maths at all?
my man, you cannot jump out of thin air and claim my hypothesis is incorrect without providing another to take it's place. Or are you claiming that the solution in the OP is correct, if so, then u're another dullard

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by mexzony: 9:40pm On May 09, 2015
Mathematicaly correct.
BUT......
Rules of mathematics applied are absolutely correct
BUT...
Am impressed honeslty
BUT...

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 9:40pm On May 09, 2015
Hell Wrong

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by emekachimek: 9:44pm On May 09, 2015
Referring to the numerator, -10 x 10 is not equal to -10^2 as written by the Mathematician. Instead, -10 x 10 = -100 while -10^2 = +100. The numerator says 100-100 not 100+100. Therefore the so called Mathematician is so wrong that he needs to get this off before small children see it and get confused

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Hitter(m): 9:44pm On May 09, 2015
mexzony:
Mathematicaly correct.
BUT......
Rules of mathematics applied are absolutely correct
BUT...
Am impressed honeslty
BUT...

Lie!!.. Maths rule weren't followed .. Anything divided by 0 is straight indefinite! (∞)

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Tinkybabe(f): 9:47pm On May 09, 2015
godofOrijin:
Creative but wrong.

I could arrive @ 1 by doing the following...
(10+10)(10-10) / (10+10)(10-10)
=1
True!

10(1+1)/10(1+1)

=2/2 = 1


I guess, we can prove and disprove mathematics theories as much as we want which shows that maths is not finite.


I admire the guy 's reasoning ability but he flawed when he didn't apply the same mode of expansion to the numerator and the denominator.
1 is a better answer

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by mexzony: 9:51pm On May 09, 2015
Hitter:


Lie!!.. Maths rule weren't followed .. Anything divided by 0 is straight indefinite! (∞)
Did you see all the BUTs I wrote...

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by wonda26(m): 9:53pm On May 09, 2015
cupid1:
my man, you cannot jump out of thin air and claim my hypothesis is incorrect without providing another to take it's place. Or are you claiming that the solution in the OP is correct, if so, then u're another dullard
Explain how you came about the '-1'

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by wonda26(m): 9:56pm On May 09, 2015
emekachimek:
Referring to the numerator, -10 x 10 is not equal to -10^2 as written by the Mathematician. Instead, -10 x 10 = -100 while -10^2 = +100. The numerator says 100-100 not 100+100. Therefore the so called Mathematician is so wrong that he needs to get this off before small children see it and get confused
He applied the rule: 'Difference of two squares'

(a^2 - b^2) = (a + b) (a - b)

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Nobody: 10:08pm On May 09, 2015
wonda26:

Explain how you came about the '-1'
they didn't teach you in secondary school that -1/1 and 1/-1 are all equal to -1 ?
Either you were a math failure or you didn't go to a proper school

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by godofOrijin: 10:31pm On May 09, 2015
Tinkybabe:

True!

10(1+1)/10(1+1)

=2/2 = 1


I guess, we can prove and disprove mathematics theories as much as we want which shows that maths is not finite.


I admire the guy 's reasoning ability but he flawed when he didn't apply the same mode of expansion to the numerator and the denominator.
1 is a better answer


Mathematics is one abstract discipline. I could just prove 1 + 1 != 2 by following the so called mathematical principles.

@ the guy arguing that anything divided by zero is infinite so 0/0 should be infinite due to the zero @ the denominator, do you realize the numerator is also 0? Nd going by what you claim, we could also draw a straight conclusion by saying the answer is zero. We now have two conflicting results... Zero, infinite. The result ''1'' is realistic because zero and infinite are two opposing forces of mathematical principle which crosses out to one.

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Jumbledwords: 10:34pm On May 09, 2015
wonda26:

10^2 - 10^2 = (10 + 10)(10-10) is very correct.

In mathematics, it is called 'Difference of two squares'


If you doubt, try simplifying the right hand side of the equation

Yeah, but it was at the point of expansion that the whole solution took a nosedive

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Jumbledwords: 10:39pm On May 09, 2015
Lol, the funny thing is, if I interchange how the denominator was expressed with the numerator, I'll get 1/2 which technically will be correct as well (based on the proof)

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Jumbledwords: 10:55pm On May 09, 2015
Tinkybabe:

True!

10(1+1)/10(1+1)

=2/2 = 1


I guess, we can prove and disprove mathematics theories as much as we want which shows that maths is not finite.
I admire the guy 's reasoning ability but he flawed when he didn't apply the same mode of expansion to the numerator and the denominator.
1 is a better answer

I'm guessing this was what you did:
(10+10)(10-10) / (10+10)(10-10)= [10(1+1)] [10(1-1)]/ [10(1+1)] [10(1-1)]

There's still a "bracket function" yet to be executed which will reduce your final result to zero when that happens

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Ojobojo1(m): 10:57pm On May 09, 2015
Total bullshit, d first equation already negates the whole tin, anything divided by 0 is infinity

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by remsonik(f): 11:15pm On May 09, 2015
Very wrong. 1 would be been a more provable answer
Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by emekachimek: 11:16pm On May 09, 2015
wonda26:

He applied the rule: 'Difference of two squares'

(a^2 - b^2) = (a + b) (a - b)

But his fractionalization was wrong: 100-100 is never 10^2 - 10^2 because -100 is NOT equal to -10^2. -10^2 = +100.

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by Mogenerous(f): 11:23pm On May 09, 2015
This actual got me laughing.... Try with 50... Taaar

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Re: Photo: See How A Mathematician Proved 0 Divided By 0 Equals 2 by emekachimek: 11:25pm On May 09, 2015
wonda26:

He applied the rule: 'Difference of two squares'

(a^2 - b^2) = (a + b) (a - b)

What he did was: (100-100)=10^2 - 10^2 which is wrong. -100 does not have a square root but u can have square of -100 which is equal to +10000. ONLY POSITIVE NUMBERS HAVE SQUARE ROOTS BUT ALL NUMBERS HAVE SQUARES. He failed it when he factorized -100 as 10^2: It is wrong.

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