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'''Bindu Thirumalai IT for Change ''' You have said that let a=x in step 1. Therefore this step 2(a-x)= a-x divide both sides by a-x is not possible because a-x = 0 and you cannot divide by zero, its undefined.
'''Bindu Thirumalai IT for Change ''' You have said that let a=x in step 1. Therefore this step 2(a-x)= a-x divide both sides by a-x is not possible because a-x = 0 and you cannot divide by zero, its undefined.
'''Sriranjani Ranganathan, IT for Change''' Yes, this is the fallacy. Rules of cancellation and algebraic manipulation do not hold when zero is involved...
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