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Find a way to prove 2+2=5.?

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  • 1 decade ago
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    Listen to Radiohead's song "2+2=5".

  • 1 decade ago

    This is not math. When people ask something like this they mean diffrent units or something else like 8+4=1 they mean 8+4 = 1 dozen (12) or 10+3= 1 (10 o'clock and you add 3 hours = 1 o'clock)

    or sometimes play with number and make illegal operation that looks legal like x=1 and we divide by x-1. It would seem normal to divide by x-1 but don't forget that x\1 ( dividing by 0)

    so it not math

  • 1 decade ago

    (1) let x = 2+2

    (2)[multiply by x-1] x(x-1)=(2+2)(x-1)

    (3) x^2 -x = 2x+2x-2-2

    (4)[subtract 3x] x^2-4x=x-4

    (5)[multiply by x-5] (x-5)(x^2-4x)=(x-5)(x-4)

    (6)x^3-9x^2+20x=x^2-9x+20

    (7)x(x-4)(x-5)=(x-4)(x-5)

    (8)[divide by x-4] x^2-5x=x-5

    (9)[add 4x] x^2-x=5x-5

    (10)x(x-1)=5(x-1)

    (11)[divide by (x-1)] x=5

    The problem with this proof is the division by 0 throughout the problem...but still funny

  • 1 decade ago

    numbers are made up by man, so you can make up your own set of digits, for there are many similiar symbols in civilizations that have different meanings, and you can say that 2+2=5

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  • Sage B
    Lv 4
    1 decade ago

    At one o'clock, two hours plus two more hours is five o'clock.

    I WIN!

  • 1 decade ago

    I have no answer so I should WIN!

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