[antiRepublicrat]

Infinite doesn't mean all-encompassing. (There are infinitely many even integers, but the list also excludes infinitely many integers -- the odd ones.)

The infinite monkeys still stands. They will create not just all shakespeare, but every written work ever created, and in order of creation. If a probability is more than zero, it will probably happen given infinity.

(Impossibilities, for example; the probability that 1=2 will remain zero.)

a = 1, b = 1
Therefore:	a = b
*a	a2 = ab
-b2	a2-b2 = ab-b2
factor	(a+b)(a-b) = b(a-b)
cancel(a-b)	a+b = b
Put original values in	1+1 = 1
Result	2 = 1

Have a nice day. :)

[oblomov]

Sorry, since you divided by (a-b), this equality holds only if a <> b. So a and b both can't be 1.

[TheGhostOfTomPaine]

If a probability is more than zero, it will probably happen given infinity.

More precisely, if the probability of an event is more than zero, it will occur with probability approaching one as the number of repeated trials increases without limit.

I'm familiar with the joke proof that 1 = 2, but thanks for the laugh.

[jwalsh07]

cancel(a-b) a+b = b

Sorry, no "canceling" after junior high. And no dividing by zero before or after junior high.