Shameless on 23 June 2008
| wfz said: Shameless, you just proved that the derivative of 1 is 0, which is perfectly legitimate. Have you ever actually taken a calculus course? |
It's a 'proof' for 1 = 0.
I could write a load of words if you don't understand:
let
x = 1
Differentiate both sides with respect to x and we get
dy/dx (x) = dy/dx (1)
or 1 = 0
I'm going to guess you thought that it should have been dy/dx = 0 but that would only be the case if I was using y = 1 and differentiating with respect to x.
