Autah-cs.629 net.math utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!benson Wed May 5 13:50:35 1982 Re: 2=1 by Decot The problem is not that x must be an integer but that when differentiating the right hand side x is taken to be a variable for each term, but a constant for the number of terms. The derivative of x + x + ... + x (x times) is not x.