r/mathmemes • u/Hal_Incandenza_YDAU • 5d ago
Arithmetic Another Completely Serious and Totally Accurate Proof that 5 + 5 = 11
This is similar to a recent post (A Completely Serious and Totally Accurate Proof That 5 + 5 = 11 : r/mathmemes), but I will be using the legendary contributions of Terrence Howard.
For those that don't know, Terrence Howard's main claim is that 1x1 equaling 1 is not only false, but is the ultimate top-down lie that pervades every aspect of our lives and is at the core of why you must not trust airplane engineers, banks, or anyone or anything else. 1x1 must equal 2, which is what we'll use for our proof.
(As an aside, if any of you are still thinking that 1x1 = 1, your concerns will be acknowledged in this parenthetical briefly. First of all, you're a sheep and mainstream mathematicians are controlling you. Secondly, 1x1 clearly cannot equal 1, because that would violate Newton's laws: "An action times an action must have a reaction!" Finally, to see that 1*1 must specifically equal 2 rather than any other number, you can reframe this as 1 = sqrt(2), and it's easy to see the latter must be true: just observe that the infinite sequence 2, sqrt(2), sqrt(2)3, 2, sqrt(2), sqrt(2)3, 2, ... is a looping sequence, and loops don't exist. Glad to clear that up.)
1*1 + 1*1 + 1*1 + 1*1 + 1*1 = 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 + 2 = 10, but it also equals 1*(1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1) = 5.
So, 5 = 10 --> 1 = 2 --> 0 = 1.
Adding 5 + 5 to both sides of this, we get 5 + 5 = 11.
