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Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Neo » Mon Jul 11, 2011 6:28 pm

I'm a bit confused with this at the moment.
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I guess this should be false. There are only few loopholes in mathematics. Basically my mind says this is impossible.

Can anybody try this to see whether this is true or false?
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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Nipuna » Mon Jul 11, 2011 7:15 pm

NO! Not Me

I don't want to be a Mad person Trying Heavy Mathematics :D

I have Plenty of Confusing Mathematics Problems for BIT :D
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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Herath » Mon Jul 11, 2011 10:32 pm

http://www.math.toronto.edu/mathnet/fal ... t1eq2.html

Could be something like this?. :D
Problem arises when (a^2-ab) is cancelled off from both sides without considering the possibility of a^2-ab=0.
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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Face » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:15 am

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Something like this haa? I have seen plenty of them! :D never tried to solve them:P
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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Rksk » Tue Jul 12, 2011 8:46 am

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... TxQDjGQh-0[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... KTCTy4UsUg[/media]

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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Chathura » Mon Aug 01, 2011 11:09 am

Rksk wrote:[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... TxQDjGQh-0[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... KTCTy4UsUg[/media]

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second one is mathematically wrong. cannot remove (B - C- A) because it is equivalent to zero. so we cant remove that from both sides (to remove by divide the term should not be zero. divide by 0 is not defined in maths)

first one is a visual fake. try it.....
you can't see it on the video because of the line width of squares........
:yahoo:
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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Rksk » Mon Aug 01, 2011 12:52 pm

Chathura wrote:
Rksk wrote:[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... TxQDjGQh-0[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?gl=US&hl=e ... KTCTy4UsUg[/media]

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second one is mathematically wrong. cannot remove (B - C- A) because it is equivalent to zero. so we cant remove that from both sides (to remove by divide the term should not be zero. divide by 0 is not defined in maths)

first one is a visual fake. try it.....
you can't see it on the video because of the line width of squares........
:yahoo:
Yes, yes. but others can't understand this.

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Re: Can anybody solve this 64 = 65 mystery?

Post by Neo » Mon Aug 01, 2011 4:27 pm

There is a proof in complex numbers that shows 1 = 2 due to a little false step which is generally considered correct ;)

As someone stated, those are just confusing our minds.

Lots of such things are here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematical_fallacy
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