{"id":572,"date":"2007-03-06T09:48:51","date_gmt":"2007-03-06T09:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/?p=572"},"modified":"2014-11-09T09:47:51","modified_gmt":"2014-11-09T01:47:51","slug":"proof-that-nothing-is-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/proof-that-nothing-is-everything-572","title":{"rendered":"Proof that nothing is everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here's a great little proof that 0 = infinity:<\/p>\n<p><img src='\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/03\/zero-equals-infinity.jpg' width=\"422\" height=\"522\" alt='zero = infinity proof' \/><br \/>\nImage source: Photobucket [no longer available]<\/p>\n<p>Can you spot the flaws in logic?<\/p>\n<p>Actually, this also raises issues about the notation we use in mathematics, and how easy it is (jokes aside) for students to be easily confused by poor notation.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/learn-math\/towards-more-meaningful-math-notation-661\">Towards more meaningful math notation<\/a>, where I expand on this difficulty.<\/p>\n<p class=\"alt\">See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/mathematics\/proof-that-nothing-is-everything-572#comments\" id=\"comms\">6 Comments<\/a> below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can you prove that 0 = infinity? Here's a neat way to do it. The math logic is mostly right!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/572\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.intmath.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}