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Re: Image comments for ive seen many examples of fallacies but how is this one a fallacy?
Posted by: cesiuminjector
Date: 05/04/2006 06:19PM
in layman the reason you cannot divide by zero: how many times can something go into nothing
im sure this is a fallacy, but its not readily apparent to me why
in line 4, there is just the expanded a^2-b^2 which is equal to (a+b)(a-b), it doesnt say a*b anywhere in line b. The next algebraic operation is to devide (a-b) from both sides of the equation - which is perfectly legal
nevermind - im going to send this to one of the math proffesors at cal poly - they will respond back with the right explanation
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