2 + 2 = 2
basically 2 + anything = 2 because the minus is crossed out!
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2 + 2 = 2
basically 2 + anything = 2 because the minus is crossed out!
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2*2 = 2 + 2, so it is correct. One can alter it such that it becomes 2a -a = b, which means a = b.Originally Posted by KukriKhan
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the fallacy in Kommodus' "proof" is the last step. he's dividing by (a - b) which is (2 - 2), which is 0. dividing by zero is a no no.
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Of course it can be four, or one, or anything else -- that is, if you define it as such. After all this is mathematics, not apples 'n oranges.
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How do we know it isn't apples and oranges?
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'Cause they're numbers?
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If we put this in binary...
10 + 10 = 100
OMG!
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I just read it again, for the fiftieth time, last week.
2+2= Anything that will make the O'Brien stop the torture.
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Congratulations! You win a cookie.Gah! That one gave me a headache.
If a = b then dividing something with (a-b) is an impossible action as dividing on zero is impossible. I solved the problem, I hope.
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Isn't it even worse? You have 0=0 and then divide that by 0... Yeah took a few min for me to figure that one outCongratulations! You win a cookie.
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Everyone knows that 2 + 2 = RoadKills
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2 + 2 = 2^2 = 2*2
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Another 1984 fan here, huh?
2+2=5 if the Party says so.
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Re: AW: 2 + 2 = ?
2 + 2 = 11 in ternary mathematics
2 + 2 = 10 in quaternary mathematics
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2 + 2 = 1 (mod 3)
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This thread is like a gayness test.
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2+2= 22!
I enjoyed CountArachs binary answer....
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Heh, I doubt it was the same problem exactly...
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4
What's wrong with you people?
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2x+2x=4x
2y+2y=4y
As someone else said, arguing otherwise is going into the meaning of truth and knowledge, which is (IMO) as meaningless an exercise as any the Greeks ever devised.
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On the other hand 2(L H2O) + 2(L H2O) is not equal to 4 L H2O, depending on the conditions of the water.
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I'm blacklisting all of you except for Craterus. Seriously, I've never seen that much of people excelled at disputing over nothing.
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2 + 2 doesn't equal much if Ned Flanders is running the Ark.
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QFT! 2 + 2 = 44
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Yes but there are an infinite number of universes.
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Prove it.
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Disprove it.
Anyway, 2 + 2 ~ 2 following my earlier post, is possible.
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It's not for me to prove/disprove.
It also doesn't follow that being in another universe would allow two things added to another two things to equal something other than four.
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Re: 2 + 2 = ?
Shouldn't be. 0/2 = 0
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