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OT (not wood related) puzzle

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OT (not wood related) puzzle

I know some don't like the puzzles, so they can ignore this post, for the others, here is a simple one:

Where is the fallacy?


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Re: OT (not wood related) puzzle

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Steven Antonucci

i "imagine' the answer lies squarely in the root

of the issue. It's simple if you've had 10 years of math, but harder if you don't remember any of them :-)

Steve

Re: OT (not wood related) puzzle

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Re: OT (not wood related) puzzle

In going from line 6 to 7 you are taking the square root of a positive value and a negative value...the square root of 1/2 is not the same as the square root of -1/2.

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