Solving for 0... It is NOT impossible! What does this mean?

Here is the equation:
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The equation is deemed impossible, because one side has to be divided by zero. However, what happens if we plug in q for anytime we get 0?

Maybe i just found something simple like radioactive decay? I really dont know what this means.

I am not a scientist. But hopefully some genius folks out there can make some use of this find and give us some new technology.

This thread is the pre-cursor to the following thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Please ignore the q = -1/4 part. That is incorrect.


the equation in question is:

q = q + 1/2

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Originally posted by demonseed
Here is the equation:
i101.photobucket.com...

The equation is deemed impossible, because one side has to be divided by zero. However, by plugging in a variable for 0, i was able to figure out a substitute for 0 and solve the equation.

Maybe i just found something simple like radioactive decay? I really dont know what this means.

I am not a scientist. But hopefully some genius folks out there can make some use of this find and give us some new technology.

This thread is the final answer to the following thread:
www.abovetopsecret.com...

Special thanks to user ParkerCramer for figuring out q=q + 1/2. Most of us, myself included, thought it was unsolvable.

If anybody would please replicate these results for other equations maybe we could figure out a reasonable substitute for 0 in all cases.

If it was deemed impossible, how did you figure it out? Did you use 'x' as a substitute?
What happens if you divide it by 1/2?
Wasn't that your question in an earlier thread?

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q=q+(1/2) --> q-q=1/2 --> 0=1/2 --> 0*2=1 --> ?

that your progression of thought?

double post

please click the link and view the equation first.

Originally posted by abecedarian
reply to post by demonseed

 

q=q+(1/2) --> q-q=1/2 --> 0=1/2 --> 0/2=1 --> 0/0=1

that your progression of thought?

edit on 11/27/2010 by abecedarian because: (no reason given)

no....

please click the link and view the equation first.

reply to post by demonseed


notices I messed up too and edited while you were posting.

reply to post by demonseed


so now you have q=q+(1/2), where q=-(1/4)
thus -(1/4)=-(1/4)+(1/2) ---> which is not true as -(1/4)+(1/2)= (1/4); not -(1/4)

q=0 q=-(1/4)

Originally posted by abecedarian
reply to post by demonseed

 

so now you have q=q+(1/2), where q=-(1/4)
thus -(1/4)=-(1/4)+(1/2) ---> which is not true as -(1/4)+(1/2)= (1/4); not -(1/4)

q=0 q=-(1/4)

edit on 11/27/2010 by abecedarian because: (no reason given)

oh wow oops...

now i feel really dumb lol.

Well i guess its just q= q + 1/2 lol. Back to square 1.

reply to post by demonseed


so you made a fractal?

Isnt that what it is... it looks familiar....

reply to post by demonseed


Maybe I'm just looking at the wrong part, but right at the top of the page, you've got x/(x+4) - 4/(x-4) = (x2 + 16)/(x+4)(x-4), wouldn't

x/(x+4)-4/(x-4) = (x2 – 8x -16)/(x2 +4x – 4x - 16)

be more correct? and then solving for 0, x = 0



I'm probably just missing the point... LONG time since I did any maths other than statistics, and I can't for the life of me see where q came in in the first place.

Where are you trying to get with this?

The equation in question is not a well-formed equation, it's gibberish.

It's just as useless as trying to solve 1 = 2. There is no answer, becuase it's not a solvable equation.

It has no essence, no meaning, no practical application; it does not represent anything.

The only way you could possibly solve such an equation is by inventing new math; math where numbers don't have a meaning. Math which is not math, but gibberish.

I'm having trouble understanding what it is that you're trying to do here. There are a million different ways to write undefined mathematical expressions. Just because you can put it into an expression it doesn't mean it's something real which can or should be solved.