13 May 2006 at 05:01 - 7
There are problems upon problems with both of these poor logical proofs. First of all, both are based upon not an indisputable fact, but opinions, thus negating any validity they might have.
Secondly, you will find in mathematics, "and" means addition. Therefore, it would be time+money, not time x money, or in the case of the second proof, time+money+girls+sex. Thus, the first proof, we have 2 x money, thus 2 x rt{evi}), and because the root of evil is debatable as to what exactly it is (some arguments espousing the human mind, others God, et. al.), all we have is a variable that's impossible to know the value of. In the case of the second proof, we have 2 x rt{evil} (see above on time and money) + 4 x rt{evil} (2 x answer for girls), we have the answer 4 x rt{evil}, another nameless variable.
Therefore, even working within the assumptions of the proof, we can only determine that both men and girls are a multiple of the root of evil, which does nothing to espouse whether one or the other is evil or good.
The only way I can see to make this anything useful is by making the assumption that evil is a negative. Because negative number's can only have imaginary square roots, and any multiple of an imaginary number is still imaginary, we can conclude that neither men nor girls exist outside the realm of the mind; they are imaginary.
Unless, of course, you work with keeping the root of evil as money, in which case girls equal 2 x money, and men as 4 x money, in which case the proofs argue that men are worth more monetarily.
That's enough logic for one day. Ta.