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Thread ID: 70870 2006-07-19 04:51:00 PF1 roll call beetle (243) PC World Chat
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472015 2006-07-21 07:39:00 IQ question

Why is 1+1 = 1 not 2?
I guess I shouldn't tell the answer since I have your MSN contact, should I?

Proof:
let a = b

a² = ab -> Multiply both sides by a
a² + a² - 2ab = ab + a² - 2ab -> Add (a² - 2ab) to both sides
2(a² - ab) = a² - ab -> Factor the left, and collect like terms on the right
2 = 1 -> Divide both sides by (a² - ab)

Since 1 + 1 = 2 and 2 = 1
Therefore, 1 + 1 = 1

However, that doesn't quite answer the question though, since you are saying that it equals to 1, but not 2. :D

Cheers :)
Renmoo (66)
472016 2006-07-21 07:55:00 Divide both sides by (a² - ab)

// ! ERROR (DIV_0) ! //
roddy_boy (4115)
472017 2006-07-21 08:04:00 However 2 + 2 = 5, for very large values of 2 godfather (25)
472018 2006-07-21 09:25:00 :D - love that one Dannz (1668)
472019 2006-07-25 00:35:00 Your hijacking my thread with maths?????????????

:confused:


:lol:

anyone think you geeks or something . . . . . . .

:p
beetle
beetle (243)
472020 2006-07-25 01:03:00 Where is here....exactly?

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allblack (6574)
472021 2006-07-25 05:10:00 Here is here, alive and healthy (bettleism) pcuser42 (130)
472022 2006-07-25 05:46:00 "The other day upon the stair
I saw a man who wasn’t there.
He wasn’t here again today.
Gee, I wish he’d go away."

And he did
dvm (6543)
472023 2006-07-26 05:32:00 I'm as slack as at the moment cause i just hitchiked from CHCH to the far north and back down to AK. Computer access is currently limited to using a computer at the Killing Room where i am (ahem) helping out at the moment.

It's all good fun, and a great holiday, apart from the trip up which was rather exaustive owing to far to much time spent on the road and far too little time spent in anything resembling a bed :D

Using windows is weird too, but one must be adaptable. I'll be back to annoy properly in a week.
personthingy (1670)
472024 2006-07-26 05:49:00 The non-Aucklanders need a translation for "the Killing Room."

Otherwise, there are too many choices for the imagination...
Laura (43)
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