A89: Re: Re: Re: C question... actually two C questions...
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A89: Re: Re: Re: C question... actually two C questions...
gah! i can't figure it out! surely you must have a divide by 0 somewhere,
but it's escaping me...
/brian
----- Original Message -----
From: "Zeljko Juric" <zjuric@utic.net.ba>
To: <assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org>
Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2000 2:40 AM
Subject: A89: Re: Re: C question... actually two C questions...
>
> Hi!
>
> > Pat Davidson criticises me for saying 3=4...
>
> 3=4 may be easily proven: let start from obvious 9-21=16-28:
>
> 9 - 21 = 16 - 28 / + 49/4
>
> 9 - 21 + 49/4 = 16 - 28 + 49/4 / factoring
>
> 3^2 - 2*3*7/2 + (7/2)^2 = 4^2 - 2*4*7/2 + (7/2)^2 / collecting
>
> (3 - 7/2)^2 = (4 - 7/2)^2 / sqrt
>
> 3 - 7/2 = 4 - 7/2 / + 7/2
>
> 3 = 4 / Proven!
>
> Of course, everyone who wants a passable mark from mathematics
> must find an error in this "proof" in less than one minute (but
> without help of TI-89)... Try to generalize this to "prove" that
> a=b for any a and b... Sorry for this "off-topic", this is just
> for fun... If you want more "proofs" for 3=4, tell me so...
>
> Cheers,
>
> Zeljko Juric
>
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>
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