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  • pause at 1:56 and think about it that where did an extra +1 came from it should never exist or it should be followed by -1

  • ...and at the end of the line is a lone -1 in a paranthesis to cancel the first plus one out. (For the record I believe in God)

  • @patrickJMT

    Wouldn't the number of terms in that series be odd for 0 to be equal to 1?

    And if you regroup it another way, you can get 0 to equal to -1...

    However, in both cases, the number of terms would be odd, and the terms needed for the 0's to be consistent would have to be even - (1-1) = 1-1 = 0 (two terms)

    I appreciate the videos you upload - they help me out alot, and I thank you for that, and though I may be falling behind and even failing in my math class, I'm sure I'm right here.

  • It's because whether we admit it or not, there's always going to be another -1 to cancel out that first 1... right?

  • I love how Patrick is so knowledgeable in maths he is able to display something interesting and simple enough even the trolls can talk over. Bravo good sir! : )

  • @justwilmot hahahhah ;)

  • since the sequence is never ending, the equation cannot be solved

  • @kehren1 you are ignorant... you can stop the equation whenever you want, therefore it does not have to be infinitely continuous. This equation is not true, but that isn't the reason why.

  • @RParnell93 no need to call someone ignorant. let's act like big boys and girls in here please.

  • I'm having trouble seeing how this works. Since you're adding and subtracting an infinite number of 1's, even though you shifted the brackets over by one, shouldn't there be a -1 that comes up at the end? Yes there's no end, because it's infinite, surely there's a -1 that comes up in "..." section.

  • Btw, why did you decide not to be a philosophy major?

  • @Shorty20122012

    well, not much to do with a philosophy major, bro.

    For us average joes, it's pretty darn hard to make money out of our passions.

  • I don't think this explanation is credible because you altered the number of terms. I will say that there is some truth in math being kind of a universal phenomena and not something that's just mundane.

    An example is the argument about how much space there is. We can only see as far as the speed of light allows. Chances are there is an infinite amount of space though. This sounds kind of weird until you realize there is an infinite amount of numbers. Don't ask how that logic makes sense to me.

  • Are you actually allowed to just 'move the parentheses over'? That changes the equation right? lol

  • Is the problem order of operations? That you need to do what's in parenthesis first, before the stuff outside it, therefore that extra straggling "1" throws things off?

  • Whoa Brah! That one at the beginning came out of nowhere! Fuuuarrrkkk....

  • The thing with 0=1 is basically changing the order of the equation.

    Examples: You can switch 2+1 to 1+2 and still get 3, but what you can't do is change 2/1 to 1/2 and expect to get the same answer.

    Another example is like (1+5)*(1+6)=42.. You change the parentheses around to 1+(5*1)+6 and you'll get 12. You're basically tampering with something set in stone, when you do that, of course you're going to get something different. (btw when i say "you" i mean the guido guy, even if he is long dead)

  • a lot of people have been fool by this ..actually.. no matter how long the equation.. there is always a -1 to cancel the 1 at the front.. peace.:-)

  • @patrickJMT but it doesn't make sense... you had 6 terms in the beginning and you end up with 7 in your final equation. So it must be 1=(1-1)+(1-1)+(1-1)+1 instead which is 1=1 naturally

  • @kaka4ever100 he had an infinite number of terms in the beginning

    watch it again

  • @kaka4ever100

    No, because it begins with a proof of 0 = ...

    So anything to the right of the equation, that being 1 + (-1 + 1)... equals 1 since an infinite series of a 0 plus an unpaired 1 is 1

  • it's just an extra 1 in the 4th line...

  • I'm not sure of what i'm supposed to see, but what i do see is on the fourth line you just added another 1 into the mix. 0+0+0+0 += 0, and so does +3-3, but +4-3=1. And that's what it looks like you did.

    Loving your videos,

  • The series diverges :)

  • WOW you? a philosophy?? no way who'd ever thought!

  • This video is cruel. Trying to study Taylor series only to see this in the related videos...it's like bait for me to waste time!

    But seriously, thanks for all of the help!

  • @Sugadaddy774 ha, yes. i guess others think the same. if i had titled it: ' A Divergent Alternating Series ' , I am pretty sure no one would have watched :)

  • Patrick - Your mathematical acumen is evident in all your other videos. Thanks for them. I have learned quite a bit. As far as this video goes, I appreciate your humor. You certainly would know that that the very first statement 0 = 0+0+..(infinite times) which equals 0 x infinity is where the issue is. LHS = determinate and RHS = indeterminate.

  • You are using language to manipulate evidence. You have no evidence. Once again, someone who is not trained in the ways of science is using theology as evidence of it's self. That's circular reasoning.

  • @frosted1030 okie dokie

  • @patrickJMT LOL

  • @frosted1030 haha you are cool.

  • @frosted1030 Did you even read the description or listen to anything he said? This is why we can't have nice things.

  • @frosted1030 looking for god is circular reasoning. Just have faith. I don't think numbers can prove whether god exists.

  • actually your right... originally the series converged to 0, but after the shifty thing with the parentheses and rewriting the zeros as 1-1 it became an alternating series.... the whole thing is screwed up period.

  • you've just got an additional '1' to the series. :/ plus i dont think i have ever heard of any rule in math about moving the brackets in an equation (or the sum in this case)

    -undergrad in aeronautical engineering

  • Patrick, serious question, shouldn't this be a parody of Atheism views concerning the origin of the universe? Most serious theories for Atheism have a beginning, yet they aren't allowed to fall back on super-natural forces?

  • Cool demonstration. But it is mathematically incorrect. The infinite alternating series does not converge.

  • actually.... line 4 is where the error occurs.. 1+0+0

    there is a mising -1 to pair with the first ... no matter what... so 0=0 ....

  • is it because each 1-1 is really a term in the series? So changing the terms to 1+(-1+1)+1 is not the same as the series (1-1)?

  • Where in the world did that extra 1 come from (When you rewrite your parenthesis.). If those dots mean it's on going, then you can't just shift / include one number from them and exclude the rest in your calculation. It puzzles me T-T

  • You can't just take parentheses away. To take parentheses away you have to multiply the group by something else.

  • the problem is that no matter how you rewrite the terms... the series still converges to 0. therefore 0 still equals 0

  • @meisem123 Im just an undergrad in econ but I think it is actually an alternating series and thus is does not converge

  • #i is the one true god! it's imaginary and it came from nothing! because a square root of a negative does not exist, yet the #i which is the square root of -1 still apperars! it is imaginary and real all at the same time! can't you all see! ALL PRAISE The # I! LOL

  • sorry i am a little bit confused here.if u read the comment can u plz replay.on the 3rd line there was six 1s how come on the 4th line there is seven 1s???

  • @fahim89999 a series is the sum of infinite terms in an repetitive pattern. if you know what infinite means.

  • @OneTwoZeroSix there does not have to be a repetitive pattern, either. just an infinite sum of numbers.

  • @fahim89999 I`m wondering the same thing...

  • There will be a negative one left at the end which will cancel the one in the beginning.

  • I find the Euler's identity e^(-i*pi) much more interesting (and without math errors like the posted example). an irrational number to the power of an imaginary number and another irrational number equaling -1.

  • @PatrickJMT it's cute when you say tada!! :)) haha LOL i'm just thinking if you are quite laughing or smiling when you're doing this video. haha (sorry for the bad english) Ü 

  • it's cute when you say tada!! :)) haha LOL i'm just thinking if you are quite laughing or smiling when you're doing this video. haha (sorry for the bad english) Ü

  • it's cute when you say tada!! :)) haha LOL i'm just thinking if you are quite laughing or smiling when you're doing this video. haha (sorry for the bad english) Ü

  • lol he added a one and fotrgot about the negative that goes with it.

  • Ah that's quite clever... however I think the problems lies with the fact the associative law can only really be applied to expressions that aren't an infinite summations such as the one presented; Grandi's series: n=0Σ∞ of (-1)^n.

    @pooeyyeoop1 I liked the idea however you can't really define the last expression only because there isn't a last a expression, to define a final expression would be to make the sum finite rather than infinite :)

  • The proof is defeated by the fact the that -1 & 1 are added simultaneously in pairs. Thus they immediately cancel each other out. Otherwise the number would not be constant, it would be constantly switching between -1 and 0 forever. As we are just dealing with a single number and not a function this is nonsensical. Changing the brackets (which is legal) does not actually affect how/when the numbers are cancelling.

    In my opinion anyways. But what would I know? I'm just an undergrad.

  • Haha, this made me laugh... now here we go with creationists using this as a method to prove the existence of god even though they won't understand where this statement comes from..

  • if we were to number all the () the first time we would have say k () after we erase every () and add the new ones we would in every case put in the -1 from the n () with the 1 from the n+1 () exept the 1 from thefirst () and the -1 from the k ()

    understood or did i mess somthing up in my explanation?

  • lol!

  • i had to dislike this, from an ethical standpoint

  • youre missing a 1 at the end, theres another 1 if you group the parenthesis like that.... i just proved you wrong

  • Interesting, but yea, it doesn't work because of the order of operations. Lol, those of you who don't get it, you can't just move parenthesis with subtraction unless you change it to adding negative ones.

  • you just made 1 out of 0 which is what 'GOD' supposedly did... which is proof that YOU ARE GOD!!!

  • Wouldn't there be a (-1) at the VERY end?

    Or is that your point, is that you never really get to the end of the equation?

  • LOL, Guido.

  • I think this would disprove God if it were true. IMHO

  • I think this would disprove God, IMHO

  • Shifting the parentheses just changed the order of operations. Restructuring an equation in such a way will yield different results. The left side was true for the former equation, but it became false for the new equation. If this is the basis for anyone's argument, then lol....

  • 0+0+0

    (1-1) + (1-1) + (1-1) =0

    1-1 + 1-1 + 1-1 =0

    1 + (-1+1) + (-1 +1) + -1 =still equals zero. he moved the paranthesis over but for every 0 theres a +1 and a-1 he threw out one of the -1s and got himself an answer of 1 am i right??? if not then i dont get it. i mean it looks really clear and basic that what he did was confuse himself

  • doesn't this break the BEDMAS rule when you get rid of the brackets?

  • ;)

  • good video, i appreciate the message that you say at the end of this video, math should be something interesting and thought provoking as opposed to dry and boring! its just too bad most of our youth doesnt see it that way.

  • you have six 1s on one part, then the next one you make it 7 1s, that's why it equal to 1. you forgot a -1 at the end, that would make it equal to 0..

    There's nothing wrong with math, just dumb people trying to be smart!

  • Yeah, this is covered in some advanced calculus texts. Basically (I can't type set anything) we have an infinite series whose nth term is divergent. if the limit of the nth term as n goes to infinity doesn't exist (or it does not equal zero) then the infinite series is divergent. Another way of looking at it is no matter how far you go into the series, and are left with an even number of terms, I can always add one more term to make the partial sum equal to -/+1. 

  • To be fair, this doesnt prove the existence of a god, but rather that you can get something from nothing... So pretty much we are still at the same place to where we started (christians say you can't get something from nothing so there has to be a god an athiests saying you can't get god from nothing).

  • so in the first line of the proof, the result of the series will always be 0.

    in the second line of the proof, the result of the series will always be 0.

    in the third series, the result may be 1 or may be 0 (depending on whether it ends with '+1' or '-1).

    in the fourth series, the result will always be 1.

    in the fifth series, the result will always be 1.

    the proof conflates different kinds of series, pretending they're the same kind.

  • @patrickJMT Where does the extra 1 in the fourth step come from?

  • @Cowboys2SB that's exactly what i thought.

  • Um, what about that un-grouped negative one allllllllllll the way at the end of your indefinite series? Wouldn't it still be capable of summing with the one at the beginning in order to equal zero?

  • ...why would you move the parenthesis? 

  • I think this is rather beautifull.

    It clearly demonstrates how 'believers' are willing (and even prone to) ignoring(/not getting)

    'half' of the story.....

  • You need to count in the other end of the infinite series... the end will then have -1; 1 + 0 + 0 + ... + 0 + 0 + (-1) = 0; 1 - 1 = 0; 0 = 0

    Your proof is false because you fail at math.

  • Maybe this doesn't prove God's existence, but you have to believe in a "higher power" to multiply exponents :) .

  • @Xiricon ha, that is one of the best comments : )

  • @patrickJMT

    There has to be a god, because how can nothing turn in to something?? Supposedly before everything there was nothing, who caused the big bang if there was nothing there to cause it?? You know??

  • @Xiricon LMAO thats really good

  • The last two lines are wrong

    

  • wrong.

  • the 2nd and 3rd steps have 6 numbers and then in the 4th step he added another 1 ...to make 7 numbers so that then in the next step it would equal 1....FAIL

  • 0=1-1 is the final ans... cause when you move the last +1 to the beginning, you also should consider the existence of a -1 for that +1 as stated in the beginning...

  • Let me avoid being vague:

    0= (1-1) = 0.

    1 + (1-1) = 1.

    Two completely different equations. Ya slipped in the positive one at the beginning of the equation and called it regrouping.... sly little devil you ;)

  • haha!!! you added an unspecified positive 1 at the beginning of the fifth equation lmao nice try

  • God created math...wait, actually He created something else before that...LOGIC.............

  • if a bunny jumps half way, everytime it jumps, to reach a carrot. the bunny will never reach the carrot.

  • The math is wrong, you added a 1 that shouldn't be there. Each 0 represents a +1 and a -1, you can't just remove 1s as you please.

    Look at what Pickleninjai said.

  • I wish you were my teacher for Maths. I love you

  • God took 4 dimensions that didn't exist, time, height, width and length. As they did not exist we denote them 'i'

    And he multiplied them together. i x i x i x i

    And he got something real.

    That's how the world was made. LEWL. So corny but meh. Same as this video.

  • you're comparing apples to bananas. the formula 1-1 does equal 0, however this is just school house math used to understand value of numbers. In a real world situation; lets use chemistry for example, 1 positively charged oxygen bonds with 2 negatively charged hydrogen ions, the net charge is 0 but there is still an molecule of water. this equation has no application to the real world. It just serves as a tool to keep ignorant Christians like yourselves mesmerized by simple numbers

  • Guido, I told you not to mess with math cause you always get it wrong!

  • ♥ For the fact that he tried to use an incorrect series of numbers to prove God. Sound just like a Christian. "I have the conclusion, now what evidence do I have to back it up?" As opposed to a scientist/researcher/a-logical­-thinking-person/any-person-wi­th-common-sense: "I have the evidence, now what conclusion can I make from it?"

  • This is wrong for the following reason:

    The series 0+0+0+....... is a convergent series, i.e. the limit of partial sums is 0.

    The series 1-1+1-1+1-1+...... is an alternating series which is NOT convergent. This is true because any even partial sum will be 0, while any odd partial sum is 1. Thus the limit of the sequence of partial sums is not zero, hence the series does not converge. If a series does not converge, then it is called divergent.

    So the error is to write 0+0+0+... = 1-1+1-1+1-1+...

  • i believe god.. but i dont believe this shitty guido ubaldus theory..

  • you can't just shift the parenthesis around to do what you want. You could make all kinds of crazy shit happen doing stuff like that.

  • @patrickJMT 0=/=1. All he did was mix up the symbols to give him the desired number.

    Its like saying. Hey, why don’t you write me a check for $1. Since its only $1 put in a bunch of 0’s after it. after all a 0 is nothing!

    I just turned your $1 into $1000

  • You teach me math!!!! haha

  • Yeah the interesting thing with this approach to me is that it also means that since Satan is evil so must also god be

  • Uhm, in the 3rd line you added 1.... in both before you started with (1-1) or 1-1 but the 3rd one yo u started with 1 + ___ etc.... did you really think nobody would notice this..?

    And no, 0 can not equal 1 because if you multiply 1x2 you get 2 while if you multiply 0x2 you get 0. Hence the same applies that while 1-1 is equivalent to 0, adding a (+1) to that breaks the equation, because 1-1 does not equal 1 nor does 0. i know its obvious but i know some fool wouldve attacked me on this

  • @Metal1998

    it's called faith bud.....

  • To go from 0 to 1 by introducing 1 into the mix...brilliant! Now to just go from 1 to 0. Matter can not be created or destroyed...but math can...LOL

  • 0 does equal 1!

    If you're incredibly stupid and horrible at maths.

  • cant accept 0=1

    believes in talking man in the sky

    lol

  • I think Mr. Ubaldus was right, and I'm being absolutely serious. My math skills are limited, but my mind is sharp. If anyone would like to discuss this topic, then feel free to contact me. We could have a civil discussion, or perhaps "nasty," depending on your preference.

  • oneness is the main principle is most religions. and is a holy number, because the universe is one. there are separate parts, but really, the universe is not separate. we think everything is different, but when we examine space and time, i think we'll find exactly how much the same we are really are. God or no God, does believing in him make a difference for you?

  • @Metal1998 @bolt586

    its called faith bud...

  • lets hope we dont reach the -1 in our lifetime....

  • thumbs up if you found this arithmetic sequence bit weird

  • You're stupid. You added an extra one. And how the heck does that prove anything?

  • ahaha you cant even do basic maths, i hope ur diploma makes for good toilet paper.

  • i find it weird that in old stories from back in the day and pictures it seemed common to see gods or forms of gods in a physical sense and now a days its not visibly seen

  • This dumbass don't have a clue of the order of operations

  • That's a correct and nice equation.

  • Well the problem is that all of them are real patterns BUT the 4th one... so yeah flawed with the random 1

  • That is DEFINITELY a convergent series turning into a divergent series.......... come on

  • lol i lovethese kinds of tricks

  • Two things: 1) Did I miss a day in class where they said it was okay to completely disregard order of operations? If you begin with a parenthetical math problem, once you simplify, you don't get to just shift the parenthesis and create a brand new problem as if the answer to the new problem has anything to do with the previous. Since when did this become okay? Not that it really matters because we're still dealing with addition and subtraction which 2) @Pickleninjai demonstrates quite nicely.

  • Who's to say God doesn't have a physical form? Doesn't the Bible say God talked to Moses face to face like a man speaketh to another? Aren't humans made in the image of God? Wasn't Jesus also called Emanuel that means translates to "God among us". Don't kid yourself, of course god has a body. There is no such thing as immaterial matter.

  • This is kindof retarded...

  • If this was true even though i know its not, wouldn't then this disprove the existence of God because if something was to come from nothing then there would be no use for a God. Even in the theory of evolution something comes from nothing in the fact that the original particles that created the big-bang would have had to come from nothing if there was no God to create them.

  • Another problem one can see right away is:

    (1-1) = 0

    but if in the next line you take out the () and leave 1-1 then now you have two numbers instead of an expression that equals zero. From there you can see Pickleninjai's answer to be right up there.

  • you added an extra 1!

  • super gravity my friend...

  • To anyone making a big deal on whether or not got does exist through this... The point of god and Christianity is believing when you're not inclined to believe, faith. The minute we actually prove gods existence, the whole point of religion is gone

  • i motion that this video be renamed "proof that bad math is bad"

  • You need to have an even number of 1's. By adding an extra 1, you are basically adding +1 and not taking it back out.

    But what happened in the 4th line was this:

    0 + 0 = 0

    1 + (-1 + 1) + (-1 + 1) = 0 <-------- which equals 1 + 0 + 0 = 1

    That extra 1 at the beginning is what makes it = 1.

    God exists.

  • @TheQwertyopz

    You have a severe case of down syndrome, get it checked out.

  • I find that it odd that such an intelligent and theological forefather (Guido), gave birth to the cast of Jersey Shore.

  • I believe in God, but he's totally right: the math for this so-called "proof" is obviously incorrect.

  • @Metal1998

    ill pray for you

  • As Pickleninjai said you are not adding the very last -1 in the equation so it would be 0 = 1 + ... -1 and that would be 0 = 0... And still no proof of good.. :) Math major here :)

  • Ha that is really cool. By the way thanks for all the videos, it makes studing a lot easier to understand than staring at a book. Your awesome!

  • Um... There's an extra one in the "regrouped parenthesis"..........

  • i do find it interesting, but if u think about it, he just proved that 0 = 1, not the existence of God. he just put a Biblical phrase and matched it with math, which most mathematicians would never do. still, highly interesting :D

  • One name: Kurt Godel.

  • 0=1 yep thanks for breaking all computer technology ever

  • you forgot the -1.... wow

  • Way to pick a series that doesn't converge.

  • WOWW...you're voice was annoying as fuck.

  • when you regrouped the ones you left out a -1

  • if math will ever prove the existence of god (spoiler: it won't), it will be care of Mandelbrot and the discovery that the big bang was a localized event in a sea of infinite matter.

  • @alexglew

    i think the big thing is that there was supposed to be no matter. There might have been energy which according to e=mc^2 would allow the creation of the universe. God could only possibly be energy, and if energy created the entire universe those people will say god is everything as they already do.

    I don't think there is a god, but that is how i think all the religions could explain their gods.

  • You left out a -1

  • hmm, i think 0 is 0, because, as you can clearly see, it is not 1

  • does this also make 1=2 2=3 3=4 4=5 5=6

  • how does this prove god? what the fuck? How is this math also? You just change the numbers and then say 0=1 o.O no, the 1+0+0, etc= 1 o.O

  • Yet another child left behind

  • this is complete bullshit.. If you actually shift the paranthesis then you should get:

    1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1 .. -> 1 x (-1+1)

    not 1+(-1+1)

    ?!?!

  • how did Guido get the extra 1? cos in the beginning there is 6 1's there and in the second last statement there are 7? but nice description of maths as "dry, boring..."

  • how did Guido get the extra 1? cos in the beginning there is 6 1's there and in the second last statement there are 7?

  • 0 = 1

    +1 +1

    1 = 2

    0 = 2 by substitution

    repeat to infinity and you can prove that every number equals every number.. which is obviously NOT the case.

  • hahahaha man

    1-1+1-1+1-1

    u do it ilke this

    1+(-1+1) +(-1+1)+(-1+1)

    u put possiteve more than nigtive so offcours will be =1 lool

  • this doesnt even work, but if it did, what you're saying is that 0=1 and therefore god. alrighty then.

  • This was a shitty waste of time....in short all you're saying is...."This is an incorrect math equation....i found it interesting"

  • all i have to say "what God"?

  • lolololollololol

  • you cant just remove the parentheses deliberately just like that, please return to your studies.

  • This makes absolutely no sense. How can 0=1 possibly prove the existence of God?