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Craziness doubtless has more followers and servants than Wisdom. Don Quixote (II, 13)


imphill:

subatomiconsciousness:

scienceisbeauty:

Spot the math error (Mathematical fallacy).
Yes, you can cheat and look at the solution here.

easy shit (-3²) = 3²  so the 3-x = pi - x line is just 1 of the 4 possibilities

Yeah… What he said…

Yesterday I posted this in Science is Beauty. Any Science student should be able to find the fault before blinking three times. However I am seeing that many people make a slight mistake by giving the solution. Although it is correct that the error comes from considering only the positive root as valid solution, it is not correct that there are four solutions (positive / negative on both sides of the equation), as two of them are identical and produce the same solution. So there are only two solutions, the positive root (erroneous) that leads to absurd pi = 3, and the negative root who leads directly to the original identity. For your info.

imphill:

subatomiconsciousness:

scienceisbeauty:

Spot the math error (Mathematical fallacy).

Yes, you can cheat and look at the solution here.

easy shit (-3²) = 3²  so the 3-x = pi - x line is just 1 of the 4 possibilities

Yeah… What he said…

Yesterday I posted this in Science is Beauty. Any Science student should be able to find the fault before blinking three times. However I am seeing that many people make a slight mistake by giving the solution. Although it is correct that the error comes from considering only the positive root as valid solution, it is not correct that there are four solutions (positive / negative on both sides of the equation), as two of them are identical and produce the same solution. So there are only two solutions, the positive root (erroneous) that leads to absurd pi = 3, and the negative root who leads directly to the original identity. For your info.

— 2 days ago with 733 notes
#math  #ScienceIsBeauty 
knowledgethroughscience:

 The entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped.Source & credit.

knowledgethroughscience:

The entire surface of planet Mercury has been mapped.
Source & credit.

(via ilovecharts)

— 2 days ago with 3231 notes
#gif  #Astronomy  #geosciences 

arpeggia:

Installations by Esther Stocker

Click on each image for details.

See more Esther Stocker posts here.

— 3 days ago with 6158 notes
#design 

These beautiful magical long exposure photographs of fireflies are shot by Yume Cyan in a forest near Nagoya City, Japan.

(Source: anditslove, via conflictingheart)

— 5 days ago with 1047 notes
#photography