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@taitertot2 What if you were already in the latter case, except poor.

@willoww airheads? isn't that like cannibalism?

Good luck! Hope you found the right people!

@ragnar If it helps she sees me as less than dirt.

@maverick832 Well nonetheless it's still a very clever way to trick people, most people wouldn't account for imaginary numbers/ the negative roots for a quadratic equation. It's the same for trigonometric identities. Use math responsibly though :)

@maverick832 Lol you just said the problem here is you didn't account for the second root, I was referring to complex numbers as a way to track the negative root.

@maverick832 Yeah you corrected it at the last step, that's why I didn't point it out previously.

@maverick832 You mean the -9/2 on the outside that was supposed to be +9/2?

Or do you mean the part where I reveal the secret to this trick where you basically kill the negative sign that comes from (4-9/2) = -0.5 by squaring the (4-9/2)^2^(1/2) = +0.5 without accounting for complex numbers (i)

@ifa No, actually the number of people killed as a result of religious acts of terror/religiously motivated wars far exceeds the number of children that would've been born had LGBT couples been heterosexual and able/willing to have children. So technically "God" is a bigger murderer.

Until it got lost, a yu-gi-oh card from my childhood

@maverick832 said in Is there any possible way of making 2+2=5?:

You're a genius, you should scam people!

2+2=4
4-9/2+9/2=4
Therefore Manipulating LHS:
(4-9/2)^2^1/2
Therefore,
(a^2+b^2+2ab)^1/2

Assuming a = 4 and b = 9/2, (a-b)^2 = (a^2 + b^2 - 2ab) = (16 - 36 + (9/2)^2)

((16-36-(9/2))^1/2)-9/2

Ahah, the sign in front of the (9/2) should be positive (and it's missing a square which you correct in the follow line)

=((-20-(9/2)^2)^1/2)-9/2
=((25-45-(9/2)^2)^1/2)-9/2
=(5^2 - 2.5.9/2 -9/2^2) ^1/2 -9/2

Assuming you meant =(5^2 - (2x5x9)/2 "-" (9/2)^2), the factorization should yield =(5^2 -(2x5)(9/2) "-" (9/2)^2), which is not (5-9/2)^2 = (5^2 -(2x5)(9/2) + (9/2)^2); the sign on the (9/2)^2 being the issue

=(5-9/2)^2 ^1/2 -9/2
=5-9/2+9/2
=5
Eq With RHS=4
5=4=2+2

Rest is history :)

@hot-ashes Is this your question of the day #3?

@emily More for ya:

@willoww I was not notified about this cake pops and capri suns, as such I must respectfully decline.

@willoww I'm trying to maintain a life of obscurity on the interwebs, why else would I masquerade as a horny male with this username. Can't quite do that if you go and mention me in a post like this now can I.

@amron24

@lucywho There should be a way to edit the post by clicking some kind of "button" next to it, keep clicking until a menu pops out.

@lucywho Yes, through a delicate surgical procedure, you can change your response.

@lucywho You might want to double check the first part.

@sarah Let 2 = 2.5, then 2+2 = 5