Recent content by DaBigCheez

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow *nabs canister* Lambert: "Well done, Fisher. Now we need to see what's inside." Fisher: "I could open it." Lambert: "And you COULD play Russian roulette with a clip-loading pistol."

Call me optimistic, but I'd like to believe that police detectives would at least stand some chance of, well, detecting such foul trickery before accepting the story outright. Also...if they're only doing this once, are they really a serial killer? If they're doing it multiple times, why...

Yeah, that's what I was pretty sure the issue was, I was just curious if others could see any other reason or if they could state it more clearly; the right-hand function is itself a function of x, so it's a different function at every x (even though, if you evaluate at any given x, it works...

EDIT: Whoops, double-quote That isn't an algebraic manipulation, it's just the definition of what squaring something does. By definition, x^2 is equal to x times x. (I'm not "doing anything" to either side.)

So, I came up with (or heard while not really listening and subconsciously stole, one of the two, but I think I came up with) a fun little proof that 1 = 2. Obviously, it doesn't work - disproving an axiom is kinda hard - but I was wondering if others would come to the same conclusion as to why...