[OT]: Heh. Wanna double your salary? :-)

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 05:02:41PM -0400, Scott Elcomb wrote:
> I was checking through my Google Web History today and this link was
> offered as an "interesting article."
> 
> After making some dinner, I'm off to see the Ti-Cats and Eskimos and
> just don't have the brainpower to dig into algebra at the moment.
> 
> http://tinyurl.com/2bqul4 or
> http://www.wikihow.com/Double-Your-Salary-Using-an-Algebraic-Loophole
> 
> I'm rather fond of Wiki-How, but this article seems a bit of a
> stretch.  I'd love to hear proof/dis-proof of the loophole.  If
> comments aren't forthcoming, I'll try again later.  :-)

Amazing how easy it is to double zero without any consequence.

After all if a=b then a-b=0 which means the line
3a(a-b) + b(a-b) = 12b(a-b)

Does NOT simply reduce by dividing everything by (a-b) since dividing by
zero is not allowed.  I knew right away there had to be a divide by zero
when I saw what the page was about, and sure enough there it was.

Of course after reading the whole page now I discover they even tell you
that later on.  Oh well.

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Len Sorensen
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