Im excited for the next week, I've got a good feeling the game will REALLLLLYYY get rolling, and we'll finally start to put some money into the pot! I definetly appreciate the feedback from Compound 19 on my blog! I'll be working on it a bit more this weekend once I'm finished with all these stupid midterms. It also seems like we've figured out the AIM problems, so its just a matter of people actually coming online in order to figure things out! Sorry I haven't been on too much lately... many many midterms, including a cute math one I have today.
Speaking of: This one is for Sam, one of my favorite "proofs" that any math nerd [part or not ;) ] will enjoy.
Can you spot the contradiction?? This one is pretty easy =)
Cheers all! Agents: Go on AIM! And I'll see you all in episode 2 (whew!)
K
1 comment:
Haha, I must admit I've seen that one before. The problem is when you take the square roots. sqrt(x^2) is really +/- x, but in this one they just take the positive square root of both and ignore the others. If you then divide it into four cases and delete the false ones, you end up with:
- (5 - 4.5) = (4 - 4.5)
and/or
(5 - 4.5) = - (4 - 4.5)
both of which are true.
I like solving "paradoxes" like that one. Here's a similar, slightly more difficult one:
http://img168.imageshack.us/img168/7510/paradoxxd4.jpg
One more:
How can you construct a three-sided figure whose internal angles sum up to more than 180 degrees?
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