>I usually like to shortcut this equailty with my patened algebra technique: Multiply Both Sides by Zero, but high school teachers don't seem to understand my logic :-)

You were way ahead of your time Mike... Interestingly I had a simmilar approach that involved dividing both sides by Infinite.

Since my teacher always said that 1/0 = infinite, I figured that

1/infinite = 0, but then the teacher stated that you can't say that

1/infinite = 1/infinite because infinite is an "unknown" number and the statement was false. At the time it made me mad.

Then, years later, reading here and there, I found the "aleph's"; meta-infinite numbers and it all fell in place.

set lecture off && ;-)

Alex