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Originally Posted by RoboDesigners
0 = (1 - 1) + (1 - 1) + (1 - 1)...
Rearrange parenthesis:
0 = 1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1)...
0 = 1 + 0 + 0 + 0....
0 = 1
(Ether's going to get this oh-so-fast...)
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Sorry, I was offline all day.
The problem with the above "proof" is that the associative law of arithmetic is not universally valid for infinite sums. So you aren't allowed to re-arrange (or remove) the parentheses.