Allen said:
Rasputin said:
I still stand by my previous post... That the assumption that a=b is invalid. As previously said, although it is possible at the end, a has to not be 0 in order to get to that point, therefore a=0 is not a viable answer.
The mathematicians on this forum SHOULD agree with me on this one... :|
a=b is a perfectly valid assumption. Variables can be equal to each other.
The problem isn't that they can't be equal. I'm saying that they ASSUME IN THE BEGINNING BEFORE THEY EVEN START that a=b
AND IS TRUE. Through the rest of the problem, we know that
a=b IS NOT true, and
the assumption is therefore incorrect from the very start.
It is an invalid assumption, since the assumption
is that it is TRUE, when it is, in fact, FALSE.