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a = b = 1
a*b == a^2
a*b-b^2 == a^2-b^2
b(a-b) == (a+b)*(a-b)
b == a+b
1 == 1+1
1 == 2
Ok, this is incorrect. If you are going to have math, at least make it right...
If you have b(a-b), a-b = 1-1 = 0. Now you have b*0 which should equal 0. For some reason, you have 1-1 = 1. The same logic can be applied to the other side. Ultimately you end up with 0 = 0 which is correct if not ultimately useless.
Sorry -- done ranting...
That would be the point of posting a logical fallacy. Technically the proof cancels the (a-b) term on both sides of the equation, but that is still 0/0, but doing it with zero words is a bit more difficult.
Feel free to buy yourself some cookies for being certain that 1 != 2
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touche...
I don't want to buy a cookie -- I want Mike to give me one. :)
The logical mathematical fallacy that I like is ...
1/9 = 0.11111111111...
2/9 = 0.222222222222.....
and so on.
However, 9/9 = 1. There isn't any fractional representation for 0.99999999... and if you do the proof, you can prove that 1 = 0.99999... yet logically it seems to me that 1 > 0.9999999... (however only slightly).
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touche...
I don't want to buy a cookie -- I want Mike to give me one. :)
The logical mathematical fallacy that I like is ...
1/9 = 0.11111111111...
2/9 = 0.222222222222.....and so on.
However, 9/9 = 1. There isn't any fractional representation for 0.99999999... and if you do the proof, you can prove that 1 = 0.99999... yet logically it seems to me that 1 > 0.9999999... (however only slightly).
Ah yes, but if you write out .9999 (cont) in a very very small font, then turn the paper sideways you get 1
Actually the proof is something about any continuous decimal actually being 1 higher or 1 lower in the infinite decimal place... shrug
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Heh. I had to fiddle around a little to figure out how to make a completely blank post the first time I did it.
I just tried and couldn't figure out how to get it to submit. Kudos.
It's kinda like golf or tap dancing. You never truly know how impressive the pros really are until you go out there and actually try to do it yourself.
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Heh. I had to fiddle around a little to figure out how to make a completely blank post the first time I did it.I just tried and couldn't figure out how to get it to submit. Kudos.
It's kinda like golf or tap dancing. You never truly know how impressive the pros really are until you go out there and actually try to do it yourself.
Fatespinner's Secret Tip #214: Clicking the 'reply' button on one of his blank posts will reveal the TRUE content of his posts. ;)
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Celstial Healer, you're a magician.Yeah, and after that he's going to reveal the secret to every one of David Blaine's magic tricks.
Oh wait, David Blaine doesn't do magic tricks. But he's a magician...
I don't know any magic tricks, but can I be called a magician too?
That's exactly what an old man said to me on the bus.
Unfortunately, in my attempt say nothing on the zero word game I have said something. :-(
I must try again!
Out to get us!
BRAA YERK'S!!!
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EMAG DROW OREZ EHT!!!
I saw this post and I wondered if I was the only one who realized that Phil's original statement was simply 'The Zero Word Game' spelled backwards and in all caps.
Or if, perhaps, others did and I was the only one who cared enough to comment on it. This is a commentary thread after all.
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No, they don't, so Sebastian can read it on his Blackberry or whatever.So is it just me, or are the word games not showing up on the list of recent messageboard posts on the main page?
Not that I think that's a bad thing.
We'll have to screw with him by creating other useless threads. How about, instead of putting a three word game all in one thread, we play it where we make our three words thread titles, and carry on the story that way, with each person creating a thread for every entry.
That should make his blackberry explode.
P.S. Don't actually do this. It would be mean. The giant eye would shed a tear.
Word games in the works!
A Dwarven Word Game
A Elven Word Game
A Half-orc Word Game
ARG! 0-word game! No words! No words!
Chicka chicka
The fact that I read the spoilers on my own post:
Sad, hilarious, masochistic, or all of the above?
I just used my keyboard for the latest one.
This is a strange game, and having read the ENTIRE thread, including all the masochistic spoilers, I merely had the reaction I posted.
And to all those PI fiends: YOU sirs/madames are much more masochistic than I ever hope to be!
/d
This is a strange game, and having read the ENTIRE thread, including all the masochistic spoilers, I merely had the reaction I posted.
And to all those PI fiends: YOU sirs/madames are much more masochistic than I ever hope to be!
/d
Should I take that as a compliment? I'm the only one who memorized what he posted, I think, everyone else just found a PI site and copy/pasted.
I'm the biggest masochist in the Zero Word Game! What do I win?
This is a strange game, and having read the ENTIRE thread, including all the masochistic spoilers, I merely had the reaction I posted.
And to all those PI fiends: YOU sirs/madames are much more masochistic than I ever hope to be!
/d
Should I take that as a compliment? I'm the only one who memorized what he posted, I think, everyone else just found a PI site and copy/pasted.
I'm the biggest masochist in the Zero Word Game! What do I win?
you get a Pi in the eye( that was sad)
Anyone read bianary?
There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those who don't.
I always thought that there were 11 people in the world...
But maybe I can't count, despite being able to (sort of) undertand binary.
Anyone read bianary?I read by my eyes myself.
Can you say 10101.11010.10001.10000?
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It goes...
0= 00
1= 01
2= 10
3= 11
4= 100
5= 101
6= 110
7= 111
8= 1000
9= 1001
10= 1010
11= 1011
12= 1100
13= 1101
14= 1110
15= 1111
16=10000
If I recall correctly. This is certainly not a guarantee. Wikipedia has a pretty thorough explanation. Thorough enough that I didn't really read it. :)
Yeah, I did 1=a 2=b etc. for my message. I think The next guy is using a different system than me. Or none at all.
GAH!!! All those spoilers and NOTHING IN THEM!!!
Stop it Dragonmann! I'm not a masochist, I'm OCD!!!
Too...many...*sob*
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GAH!!! All those spoilers and NOTHING IN THEM!!!
Stop it Dragonmann! I'm not a masochist, I'm OCD!!!
Too...many...*sob*
Me too.
Like a vampire with OCD.
Must... show... every... spoilerrrrrrr..... GAH!!!