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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
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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
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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