Disproof by Contradiction


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Posted by Craig Montgomery on May 30, 2001 at 18:04:06:

In Reply to: Re: relaxation in posted by JEC on May 30, 2001 at 15:59:55:

In order to disprove that

Girls = Evil

it is necessary only to show that

money is not the root of all evil.

Since we know that there are many powers of evil in the world, and money is the root of all evil, then money must be the root for all powers of evil. Because evil has many powers, we can define it as a polynomial that has money as its root.

Evil = AnXn + An-1Xn-1 + … + A1X + A0

where X = money is a root of the polynomial Evil. We would normally have to assume that X = money is a root, and then show that this is also a root for the polynomial with n+1 instead of n, but we already know that money is the root for all evil, so this is an unnecessary step. Thus, regardless of the values of the coefficients,

An-i

evil would always be zero. But we know that this is not the case, and therefore money cannot be the root of all evil. This implies that

Girls = (Money)2

That just makes them pretty damn valuable.




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