Have you heard of the equation with a letter that's manipulated to make 1 seemingly = 2? Via clever algebra it looks possible, but falls foul of not being able to divide by zero. This is similar, but I've sussed where he's gone wrong.
ROFL² can be expressed like this without falling foul of algebraic rules:
(RxOxFxL) x (RxOxFxL) (and variations on that theme provided there's an R, an O, an F and an L in each bracket).
So he didn't fall foul, but just needed to do this instead:
(ROFL)².
Think scientific calculators. They need the brackets when doing some square functions, otherwise they don't output what you'd expect.
And instead of this ROFL madness, try replacing them with numbers, 2, 4, 5, 6 for example, and then tell me you can't interchange 2x4x5x6 with 6x4x5x2 and any combination thereof. This off the back of a Maths AS level.
PWNED³!!!
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Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 11/20/2006 06:31PM by turkey_machine.