Paradoxes

[pureprayer]

What are some of your favorite paradoxes?

 

 

 

I like "Proof that all numbers are equal"

 

Multiplying any number by 0 gives an answer of zero. For example

 

2*0 = 0

 

Rearranging the equation gives

 

2=0/0

 

However, by the same reasoning

 

1*0 = 0

 

1 = 0\0

 

and since

 

0\0 = 0\0

 

substitution gives

 

2 = 1

 

 

 

Sorry if it looks weird.

 

 

 

Also this one: One dollar will not make you rich, so if you keep this up, one dollar at a time, you will never become rich, no matter how much you obtain.

 

 

 

What are some of your favorites?

[purfishx]

That grandfather one, where if you go back in time and kill your grandfather which will prevent your birth, but would mean that you wouldn't exist in the first place... or something liek that.

[pureprayer]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

[ElkNight]

You will never reach point B from point A as you must always get half-way there, and half of the half, and half of that half, and so on.

[Nom]

I like "Proof that all numbers are equal"

 

Multiplying any number by 0 gives an answer of zero. For example

 

2*0 = 0

 

Rearranging the equation gives

 

2=0/0

 

However, by the same reasoning

 

1*0 = 0

 

1 = 0\0

 

and since

 

0\0 = 0\0

 

substitution gives

 

2 = 1

 

 

 

Sorry if it looks weird.

 

 

 

That's why you can't divide by zero.

[Guest]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

Yes. You have a 1/3 chance of getting it in the 1st place, and a 1/2 after the 1st door. However, once he asks, that changes everything (aka variable oods). If you say yes, ill change, you'll have a 66% chance of winnning.

 

 

 

Cookies to who figure outs what thats from :XD:

[Range_This11]

[indy500fan]

What are some of your favorite paradoxes?

 

 

 

I like "Proof that all numbers are equal"

 

Multiplying any number by 0 gives an answer of zero. For example

 

2*0 = 0

 

Rearranging the equation gives

 

2=0/0

 

However, by the same reasoning

 

1*0 = 0

 

1 = 0\0

 

and since

 

0\0 = 0\0

 

substitution gives

 

2 = 1

 

 

 

Sorry if it looks weird.

 

 

 

That isn't a paradox, that is just bad math. You can't divide by zero.

[pureprayer]

What are some of your favorite paradoxes?

 

 

 

I like "Proof that all numbers are equal"

 

Multiplying any number by 0 gives an answer of zero. For example

 

2*0 = 0

 

Rearranging the equation gives

 

2=0/0

 

However, by the same reasoning

 

1*0 = 0

 

1 = 0\0

 

and since

 

0\0 = 0\0

 

substitution gives

 

2 = 1

 

 

 

Sorry if it looks weird.

 

 

 

That isn't a paradox, that is just bad math. You can't divide by zero.

 

0/0 = 0

[Iamdan]

What are some of your favorite paradoxes?

 

 

 

I like "Proof that all numbers are equal"

 

Multiplying any number by 0 gives an answer of zero. For example

 

2*0 = 0

 

Rearranging the equation gives

 

2=0/0

 

However, by the same reasoning

 

1*0 = 0

 

1 = 0\0

 

and since

 

0\0 = 0\0

 

substitution gives

 

2 = 1

 

 

 

Yeah I've seen a more complex version of this that uses unknowns so you can't tell it's dividing by 0 unless you go through the steps.

 

 

 

It's something like

 

 

 

a=b

 

a^2=ab

 

2a^2=a^2+ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2+ab-2ab

 

2a^2-2ab=a^2-ab

 

2(a^2-ab)=1(a^2-ab)

 

2=1

 

 

 

There is also another involving square roots but I forgot it.

[Nom]

0/0 = 0

 

 

 

False. It's undefined. Just like anything else divided by zero.

[fastortoise]

0/0 = 0

 

:wall: The fail posts just keep getting worse.

 

 

 

I don't know any paradoxes, but here's a math riddle:

 

If you have 36 cigarette buds, and if you can make 1 new cigarette by combining 6 buds together, how many extra cigarettes can you make?

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

How many boys and girls (excluding parents) are in a family where each sister has twice as many brothers as sisters and each guy has as many sisters as brothers?

 

 

 

or

 

 

 

You have a bag full of pink and purple socks. How many socks do you have to pick out in order to be 100% you have a proper pair?

[pureprayer]

0/0 = 0

 

:wall: The fail posts just keep getting worse.

 

:thumbsup:

 

I don't know any paradoxes, but here's a math riddle:

 

If you have 36 cigarette buds, and if you can make 1 new cigarette by combining 6 buds together, how many extra cigarettes can you make?

 

7

 

or

 

 

 

How many boys and girls (excluding parents) are in a family where each sister has twice as many brothers as sisters and each guy has as many sisters as brothers?

 

3?

 

or

 

 

 

You have a bag full of pink and purple socks. How many socks do you have to pick out in order to be 100% you have a proper pair?3

[i_love_burritos]

Billiard Ball.

[Deiophobus]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

How is that a paradox?

[pureprayer]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

How is that a paradox?

 

noun

 

1. a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

[l0rd]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

Yes. You have a 1/3 chance of getting it in the 1st place, and a 1/2 after the 1st door. However, once he asks, that changes everything (aka variable oods). If you say yes, ill change, you'll have a 66% chance of winnning.

 

 

 

Cookies to who figure outs what thats from :XD:

 

 

 

Timestoppers, 21 or Spiderman, for some reason those movies are morphing together into one Timestopping-webshooting-casino-cheating ball in my head.

 

 

 

Oh and my paradox:

 

 

 

Reality

[Zierro]

Everything I say is a lie. Except that. And that. And that... -->

[dave0293]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

Yes. You have a 1/3 chance of getting it in the 1st place, and a 1/2 after the 1st door. However, once he asks, that changes everything (aka variable oods). If you say yes, ill change, you'll have a 66% chance of winnning.

 

 

 

Cookies to who figure outs what thats from :XD:

 

 

 

Timestoppers, 21 or Spiderman, for some reason those movies are morphing together into one Timestopping-webshooting-casino-cheating ball in my head.

 

 

 

 

Its the Monty Hall problem, originally from the TV show Lets Make a Deal (I think).

[indy500fan]

That isn't a paradox, that is just bad math. You can't divide by zero.

 

0/0 = 0

 

 

 

:lol:

[pureprayer]

That isn't a paradox, that is just bad math. You can't divide by zero.

 

0/0 = 0

 

 

 

:lol:

 

:cry: But if you take 0/0 and multiply by 0 you get 0.

[baalboy5]

Jumgo shrimp.

[Zierro]

Jumgo shrimp.

 

 

 

I think it's just ironic not necessarily a paradox because there really is a such thing as jumbo shrimp.

[pureprayer]

Jumbo shrimp.

 

That is a oxymoron, moron.

 

 

 

(kidding)

[mmmcannibalism]

I found this one lets see if anyone can solve it:

 

 

 

Suppose you're on a game show, and you're given the choice of three doors: Behind one door is a car; behind the others, goats. You pick a door, say No. 1, and the host, who knows what's behind the doors, opens another door, say No. 3, which has a goat. He then says to you, "Do you want to pick door No. 2?" Is it to your advantage to switch your choice?

 

 

 

Yes. You have a 1/3 chance of getting it in the 1st place, and a 1/2 after the 1st door. However, once he asks, that changes everything (aka variable oods). If you say yes, ill change, you'll have a 66% chance of winnning.

 

 

 

Cookies to who figure outs what thats from :XD:

 

 

 

you arent improving your odds by changing doors

 

 

 

at first pick each choice has 33% chance of being "correct"

 

 

 

if one door is revealed then each of the remaining two doors has 50% chance of being correct. The door you selected is equal to the door you could change to so it isnt an improvement.