• Lvxferre [he/him]@mander.xyz
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    22 hours ago

    Numbers are all made up stuff, and they’re all the same. Here, lemme prove it; let a=b, and…

    a² = ab             // multiplying both sides by "a"
    2a² = a²+ab         // adding a² to both sides
    2a²-2ab = a²-ab     // subtracting 2ab from both sides
    2(a²-ab) = 1(a²-ab) // isolating (a²-ab)
    2 = 1               // dividing both sides by (a²-ab)
    

    From there you can prove any number is any number. 36=36 or 36=8 or 36=π.

    the trick

    If a=b, you can’t divide both sides by (a²-ab), because it’s a division by zero.