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[–] [email protected] 32 points 2 weeks ago

Oh... Oh dear...

[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (6 children)

That's... not true

2^2 = 4
3^2 = 9

(2^2 +3^2) = 13
(2 + 3)^2 = 5^2 = 25
13 != 25

[–] [email protected] 44 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Yeah, I guess I just don't like looking at his wildly cocked eyes.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

It's ironic that I couldn't find a high-res version of this one.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm pretty sure that's part of the joke.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

It's missing 2*abe

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 weeks ago

it’s true in ℤ/2ℤ

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)
(a+b)^2=a^2 + b^2 + 2ab

By the cancellation law

a^2 + b^2 + 2ab = a^2 + b^2

only when

2ab = 0

So either a=0 or b=0

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago

erm 13! ≠ 25

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago

True when a and b are orthogonal.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Just use the damn Pascal's triangle!

    1                  = 1 * 1   = (a+b)^0
   1 1                 = 1a + 1b = (a+b)^1
  1 2 1                = 1a^2 + 2ab + 1b^2 = (a+b)^2
 1 3 3 1               = 1a^3 + 3(a^2)b + 3a(b^2) + 1b^3 = (a+b)^3

By the way, I have submitted maths homework that had me continue it up to layer 25. The exercise didn't explicitly state we should use the binomial formula, so why work smart when you can work hard?

(To be fair I just used WolframAlpha to get the values. Had to write down all terms still and do some calculations.)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

All I know is Left Add Right Subtract.

But I do have a pretty rad cannon.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

Self explanatory

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 weeks ago

(a+ib)(a-ib) = a^2 + b^2