Math is flawed. Version 2

[Dooby]

This video does not prove math is flawed but since I can't alter the thread topic, just watch this interesting but flawed video.

 

[Liu Kang]

This video proves it.



Defend math if you can after watching this.

I think it's the video that's flawed.
The way he showed it is biased because he aligned "-1" under "nothing" and "2" under "-2" and so on to prove his point but he should have aligned "-1" under "2" and so on and that would have been the right way.
I mean, he sould have done it that way :

(2 - 1) . (1 + 2 + 4 + 8...) = (2 - 1) + (4 - 2) + (8 - 4) + (16 - 8)...

And what he did was :

(2 - 1) . (1 + 2 + 4 + 8...) = ( - 1) + (2 - 2) + (4 - 4) + (8 - 8)...

EDIT : I am no math head and I know it talks about infinity but I meant was that he did the "distribution" wrongly

EDIT : at the gradient on the code tags

 

[Mad Good Dro]

hmmmmmmm going to have to peep this later

 

[Hans Wurst]

math, my nemesis

 

[Type Username Here]

0! =1

 

[HoloGraphic]

 

[Dooby]

I think it's the video that's flawed.
The way he showed it is biased because he aligned "-1" under "nothing" and "2" under "-2" and so on to prove his point but he should have aligned "-1" under "2" and so on and that would have been the right way.
I mean, he sould have done it that way :

(2 - 1) . (1 + 2 + 4 + 8...) = (2 - 1) + (4 - 2) + (8 - 4) + (16 - 8)...

And what he did was :

(2 - 1) . (1 + 2 + 4 + 8...) = ( - 1) + (2 - 2) + (4 - 4) + (8 - 8)...

EDIT : I am no math head and I know it talks about infinity but I meant was that he did the "distribution" wrongly

EDIT : at the gradient on the code tags

Wait a second. Why WOULD he do that. You're right man. I posted this late at night and my mind wasn't operating at its full potential.

 

[Dirty Mcdrawz]

too many numbers

 

[///Vega+++]

reminds me of 0.999... = 1


wat u don't believe me ?
check this:
let's have y = 0.999...
10y = 0.999... x 10 = 9.999... right ?
so 10y - y = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9 right ?
which means 9y = 9 hence y = 1

 

[Sensitive Blake Griffin]

 

[Dooby]

reminds me of 0.999... = 1


wat u don't believe me ?
check this:
let's have y = 0.999...
10y = 0.999... x 10 = 9.999... right ?
so 10y - y = 9.999... - 0.999... = 9 right ?
which means 9y = 9 hence y = 1

That was my first math is flawed thread. That thread did pretty well but I feel this one is going to die soon.

 

[///Vega+++]

That was my first math is flawed thread. That thread did pretty well but I feel this one is going to die soon.

oh word ? link me to it

 

[Dooby]

oh word ? link me to it

http://www.thecoli.com/threads/1-3-333-infinite.33647/

I forgot how it ended but some people brought up the equation you did.

 

[///Vega+++]

This video does not prove math is flawed but since I can't alter the thread topic, just watch this interesting but flawed video.

the fallacy appears when he says "things on the right cancel each other out" infinity - infinity = ....unknown/undetermined
he has no way of making that subtraction because he wouldn't know where to stop

 

[Dooby]

the fallacy appears when he says "things on the right cancel each other out" infinity - infinity = ....unknown/undetermined
he has no way of making that subtraction because he wouldn't know where to stop

What Liu Kang posted is what's wrong with the video.