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From: Doug Schwarz on 25 Jul 2010 18:26
In article <i2i85j$k1h$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>,
"Roger Stafford" <ellieandrogerxyzzy(a)mindspring.com.invalid> wrote:

> "us " <us(a)neurol.unizh.ch> wrote in message
> <i2i67n$kjm$1(a)fred.mathworks.com>...
> > ROGER(!)...
> > after three (3!) replies...
> >
> > :-)
> > urs
> - - - - - - - - -
> To tell the awful truth Urs my decrepit 84-year-old brain is getting slower
> and more erratic all the time. When the time comes that my replies are
> giving more trouble than they're worth I'll have to quit contributing to
> CSSM. For example if I try to prove that 1 = 2, you'll know it's time.
>
> That reminds me, here is a (in)famous proof of that very assertion.
> Suppose we have two numbers, a and b, that are equal. Then go through the
> following reasoning:
>
> a = b
> a*b = b*b
> a*b-a*a = b*b-a*a
> a*(b-a) = (b+a)*(b-a)
> a = b+a
> a = a+a
> 1*a = 2*a
> 1 = 2
>
> Should I quit CSSM now?
>
> Roger Stafford


No, but perhaps we should encourage everyone who cannot find the flaw in
the logic to quit!

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Doug Schwarz
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