[tutstar]

bump for later...

[MosesKnows]

you can prove two plus two equals four, always and everywhere.

Are you sure? How accurately can you measure zero, or two, or four? Two plus two may be 3.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 because one two was actually 1.99999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999; or was it the other 2.

[TX Bluebonnet]

[MarkL]

42...

I wonder how many people have already posted this answer...

BTW, this really IS the correct answer to the question... Try plugging this into your c compiler:

#include
#define SIX 1 + 5
#define NINE 8 + 1

int main(void)

{
printf( "What do you get if you multiply %d by %d? %d\n", SIX, NINE, SIX * NINE );
return 0;
}

Mark

[5Madman2]

Colossus, the Forbin Project

[MikefromOhio]

actually, I could believe it.

I am only in Calc 1 right now, but I figure that as I get on into my Engineering degree, that I will see some things that will defy everything else I have learned as well.

I figure there are branches of math out there that HAVEN'T been discovered yet.

[Flightdeck]

I can trisect an angle with nothing but a compass and a straight-edge, but apparently it is impossible.

[JCEccles]

Godel proved this over 70 years ago. In the pages of one slim paper he destroyed the arrogant contentions and made a mockery of the conceit of one of the most celebrated atheists of the age, Bertrand Russell, who, with Alfred North Whitehead, had set out to establish the secure and exact foundations of mathematics.

Incidently, Godel believed in the existence of God.

[chilepepper]

A few still do it the old-fashioned way, he says: "By individuals sitting in their rooms for long periods, thinking.

geez, i too sit in my room for long periods, thinking... _{about lunch}

[AmishDude]

Bull.

AmishDude, Ph. D. in mathematics.

The fact is, the old areas are drying up. (But they still have large amounts of tenured faculty.) I wouldn't be surprised if this guy was an algebraic topologist.