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Classic Fallacies -- All People in Canada are the Same Age

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If you're a little shaky on the principle of induction (which this proof uses), there's a brief summary of it below.

Classic Fallacies -- All People in Canada are the Same Age Navigation Panel:   Go backward to 1=2: A Proof using Complex Numbers Go up to Classic Fallacies index Go down to first subsection This is Not the Fallacy Go forward to A Ladder Will Fall Infinitely Fast when Pulled Switch to text-only version (no graphics) Go to University of Toronto Mathematics Network Home Page All People in Canada are the Same Age This "proof" will attempt to show that all people in Canada are the same age, by showing by induction that the following statement (which we'll call " S ( n )" for short) is true for

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