Wednesday, 18 October 2017

arithmetic - False proof m=1 for any m



Is it possible to find a fake proof that results in 1=m, where m is any number you chose?



The idea is to find a generalization to this fallacy:





a=ba2b2=abb2(a+b)(ab)=b(ab)a+b=b2b=b2=1




You can use division by zero or anything a little bit elaborated you can think of.



Answer



Using 2=1, you can prove using induction that nN,n=1.



Indeed, it is true for 1 and also for 2 by assumption. Assume that it's true for a certain n>2.



n+1=n1+2=n1+1=n=1.



Edit:



Another method which looks like a real generalisation of your given proof as follows: let nN. We have:



a=banbn=abn1bn(ab)n1k=0akbn1k=bn1(ab)n1k=0akbn1k=bn1nbn1=bn1n=1.


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