Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 beta 3/9/83; site sdcrdcf.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!hao!hplabs!sdcrdcf!jlilien From: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Newsgroups: net.jokes Subject: Proof by rotation Message-ID: <874@sdcrdcf.UUCP> Date: Wed, 29-Feb-84 14:44:22 EST Article-I.D.: sdcrdcf.874 Posted: Wed Feb 29 14:44:22 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 3-Mar-84 23:09:47 EST Reply-To: jlilien@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Joel Lilienkamp) Organization: System Development Corporation, Santa Monica Lines: 28 This does not prove 0=1, does not divide by zero (in a tricky, unforseen way), does not take the square root of a negative number, and this isn't net.math. I saw this in an MIT fraternity (TEP) rush book: Proof by Rotation (Not to be confused with circular reasoning) Prove: 1 --- = 0 (1 over infinity equals zero) oo Proof: 1 --- = oo (1 over zero is infinity; we all learned that a 0 long time ago) -10 = 8 (Counter clockwise rotation. Imagine rotating the lhs and rhs of the previous equation on its approx. center point 90 degrees counter clockwise) -18 = 0 (Subtract eight from both sides) 1 --- = 0 (Clockwise rotation) Q.E.D. oo Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry,..... Joel