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=b⇓a2−b2=ab−b2(a+b)(a−b)=b(a−b)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 ∀n∈N,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=n−1+2=n−1+1=n=1.
Edit:
Another method which looks like a real generalisation of your given proof as follows: let n∈N. We have:
a=ban−bn=abn−1−bn(a−b)n−1∑k=0akbn−1−k=bn−1(a−b)n−1∑k=0akbn−1−k=bn−1nbn−1=bn−1n=1.
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