Where did I go wrong with my odd proof that $frac3dx3x = frac5dx5x iff 3=5$?

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I don't know where I went wrong, but it's interesting for me. Please check where my fault is!
It is obvious that the below equation is correct:



$$frac3dx3x=frac5dx5x$$
$$u=3x$$and$$v=5x$$
$$fracduu=fracdvv$$
integrate both sides:
$$ln(u)=ln(v)$$
$$u=v$$
$$3x=5x$$
so,
$$3=5$$







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    When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
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    Forgot the constant of integration
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    An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
    – Bruce
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    3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
    – fleablood
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    @fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
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I don't know where I went wrong, but it's interesting for me. Please check where my fault is!
It is obvious that the below equation is correct:



$$frac3dx3x=frac5dx5x$$
$$u=3x$$and$$v=5x$$
$$fracduu=fracdvv$$
integrate both sides:
$$ln(u)=ln(v)$$
$$u=v$$
$$3x=5x$$
so,
$$3=5$$







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  • 9




    When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
    – Doug M
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 2




    Forgot the constant of integration
    – 274072
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 24




    An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
    – Bruce
    Aug 10 at 20:27






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    3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
    – fleablood
    Aug 10 at 20:28






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    @fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
    – Serge Seredenko
    Aug 10 at 21:32












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I don't know where I went wrong, but it's interesting for me. Please check where my fault is!
It is obvious that the below equation is correct:



$$frac3dx3x=frac5dx5x$$
$$u=3x$$and$$v=5x$$
$$fracduu=fracdvv$$
integrate both sides:
$$ln(u)=ln(v)$$
$$u=v$$
$$3x=5x$$
so,
$$3=5$$







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I don't know where I went wrong, but it's interesting for me. Please check where my fault is!
It is obvious that the below equation is correct:



$$frac3dx3x=frac5dx5x$$
$$u=3x$$and$$v=5x$$
$$fracduu=fracdvv$$
integrate both sides:
$$ln(u)=ln(v)$$
$$u=v$$
$$3x=5x$$
so,
$$3=5$$









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  • 9




    When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
    – Doug M
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 2




    Forgot the constant of integration
    – 274072
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 24




    An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
    – Bruce
    Aug 10 at 20:27






  • 10




    3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
    – fleablood
    Aug 10 at 20:28






  • 14




    @fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
    – Serge Seredenko
    Aug 10 at 21:32












  • 9




    When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
    – Doug M
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 2




    Forgot the constant of integration
    – 274072
    Aug 10 at 20:25






  • 24




    An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
    – Bruce
    Aug 10 at 20:27






  • 10




    3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
    – fleablood
    Aug 10 at 20:28






  • 14




    @fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
    – Serge Seredenko
    Aug 10 at 21:32







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When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
– Doug M
Aug 10 at 20:25




When you integrate both sides you need your constant of integration. "+C"
– Doug M
Aug 10 at 20:25




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2




Forgot the constant of integration
– 274072
Aug 10 at 20:25




Forgot the constant of integration
– 274072
Aug 10 at 20:25




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24




An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
– Bruce
Aug 10 at 20:27




An excellent example of the importance of remembering the constant of integration. I will certainly use this as an example when I teach integration ....
– Bruce
Aug 10 at 20:27




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3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
– fleablood
Aug 10 at 20:28




3 does equal 5. ... plus a constant.
– fleablood
Aug 10 at 20:28




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@fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
– Serge Seredenko
Aug 10 at 21:32




@fleablood In this case multiplied by a constant.
– Serge Seredenko
Aug 10 at 21:32










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Integrating we obtain



$$ln(u)=ln(v)+ C$$






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    Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
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    Aug 11 at 1:16







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    @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
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  • Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
    – Davislor
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  • @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
    – gimusi
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If you're taking an indefinite integral, then you need to include constants. Integrating, we get $ln(u)+C_1 = ln(v)+C_2$. We can collect $C_1$ and $C_2$ into one constant by setting $C_3 = C_2-C_1$, getting $ln(u) = ln(v)+C_3$. We can then exponentiate both sides, getting $u=ve^C_3$. Setting $C_4=e^C_3$, this becomes $u=C_4v$. In this case, $C_4$ is $frac35$.



If you're taking definite integrals, you need to include the limits. Suppose we integrate starting from $x = 1$. Then $u$ starts at $3$. So when we integrate $fracduu$, we have $ln(u)$ at the upper limit, but we have to subtract $ln$ of the lower limit, and the lower limit is $3$. So we have that the definite integral is $ln(u)-ln(3)=ln(frac u3)$. Similarly, for $v$, we get that the definite integral is $ln(frac v 5)$. Plugging in $u=3x$ and $v=5x$, we get $ln(frac 3x3)=ln(frac 5x 5)$, which simplifies to $ln(x)=ln(x)$.






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  • After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
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To turn my comment into an answer, your proof is correct up to the step
$$ fracmathrmd uu = fracmathrmd vv $$



At that point, as others have said, you forget to add the constants of integration when you integrate:



$$ ln u + mathrmC_1 = ln v + mathrmC_2 $$



Substituting $mathrmC = mathrmC_2 - mathrmC_1$ gives us:



$$beginalign
ln u &= ln v + mathrmC \
ln u - ln v &= mathrmC \
endalign$$



Substituting for $mathrmC$ in the first equation just gets us $ln u = ln u$, which is clearly no contradiction. A little more interesting, perhaps, is to turn our identity for $mathrmC$, $ln u - ln v$, into $ln fracuv$ and then substitute that into the other equation above to get:



$$beginalign
ln u &= ln v + ln fracuv \
&= ln left( v cdot fracuv right)
endalign$$



Now take the exponential of both sides.



$$beginalign
u &= v cdot fracuv \
3x &= 5x cdot frac3x5x \
3 &= 5 cdot frac35
endalign$$



This is presumably what Serge Seredenko meant when he said in his comment that 3 is equal to 5, “[i]n this case multiplied by a constant.”






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    Integrating we obtain



    $$ln(u)=ln(v)+ C$$






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      Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
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      Aug 11 at 1:16







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      @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 6:38










    • Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 7:22










    • @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 7:33














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    Integrating we obtain



    $$ln(u)=ln(v)+ C$$






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    • 1




      Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 1:16







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      @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 6:38










    • Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 7:22










    • @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 7:33












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    Integrating we obtain



    $$ln(u)=ln(v)+ C$$






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    Integrating we obtain



    $$ln(u)=ln(v)+ C$$







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      Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 1:16







    • 2




      @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 6:38










    • Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 7:22










    • @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 7:33












    • 1




      Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 1:16







    • 2




      @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 6:38










    • Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
      – Davislor
      Aug 11 at 7:22










    • @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
      – gimusi
      Aug 11 at 7:33







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    Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
    – Davislor
    Aug 11 at 1:16





    Where $C = ln u - ln v = ln fracuv$ So, $ln u = ln left(v cdot fracuvright)$, giving us $3 = 5 cdot frac35$..Spelling out what you were implying.
    – Davislor
    Aug 11 at 1:16





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    @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
    – gimusi
    Aug 11 at 6:38




    @Davislor I'm not implying nothing! I just gave the answer to the OP that is "I don't know where I went wrong". You are free to add your own answer here below with all the details you like. Morover try to be polite when you formulate any kind of request.
    – gimusi
    Aug 11 at 6:38












    Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
    – Davislor
    Aug 11 at 7:22




    Sorry to have sounded impolite! I just wanted to acknowledge that you were aware of the steps you left out.
    – Davislor
    Aug 11 at 7:22












    @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
    – gimusi
    Aug 11 at 7:33




    @Davislor Thanks for the clarification. I would like to proceed as in the answer here below exponentiating both sides to obtain $u=kv$ wiith $k=e^C=3/5$. Let add your own answer if you like to suggest another way. Bye
    – gimusi
    Aug 11 at 7:33










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    If you're taking an indefinite integral, then you need to include constants. Integrating, we get $ln(u)+C_1 = ln(v)+C_2$. We can collect $C_1$ and $C_2$ into one constant by setting $C_3 = C_2-C_1$, getting $ln(u) = ln(v)+C_3$. We can then exponentiate both sides, getting $u=ve^C_3$. Setting $C_4=e^C_3$, this becomes $u=C_4v$. In this case, $C_4$ is $frac35$.



    If you're taking definite integrals, you need to include the limits. Suppose we integrate starting from $x = 1$. Then $u$ starts at $3$. So when we integrate $fracduu$, we have $ln(u)$ at the upper limit, but we have to subtract $ln$ of the lower limit, and the lower limit is $3$. So we have that the definite integral is $ln(u)-ln(3)=ln(frac u3)$. Similarly, for $v$, we get that the definite integral is $ln(frac v 5)$. Plugging in $u=3x$ and $v=5x$, we get $ln(frac 3x3)=ln(frac 5x 5)$, which simplifies to $ln(x)=ln(x)$.






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    • After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
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    If you're taking an indefinite integral, then you need to include constants. Integrating, we get $ln(u)+C_1 = ln(v)+C_2$. We can collect $C_1$ and $C_2$ into one constant by setting $C_3 = C_2-C_1$, getting $ln(u) = ln(v)+C_3$. We can then exponentiate both sides, getting $u=ve^C_3$. Setting $C_4=e^C_3$, this becomes $u=C_4v$. In this case, $C_4$ is $frac35$.



    If you're taking definite integrals, you need to include the limits. Suppose we integrate starting from $x = 1$. Then $u$ starts at $3$. So when we integrate $fracduu$, we have $ln(u)$ at the upper limit, but we have to subtract $ln$ of the lower limit, and the lower limit is $3$. So we have that the definite integral is $ln(u)-ln(3)=ln(frac u3)$. Similarly, for $v$, we get that the definite integral is $ln(frac v 5)$. Plugging in $u=3x$ and $v=5x$, we get $ln(frac 3x3)=ln(frac 5x 5)$, which simplifies to $ln(x)=ln(x)$.






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    • After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
      – CDspace
      Aug 10 at 21:33












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    If you're taking an indefinite integral, then you need to include constants. Integrating, we get $ln(u)+C_1 = ln(v)+C_2$. We can collect $C_1$ and $C_2$ into one constant by setting $C_3 = C_2-C_1$, getting $ln(u) = ln(v)+C_3$. We can then exponentiate both sides, getting $u=ve^C_3$. Setting $C_4=e^C_3$, this becomes $u=C_4v$. In this case, $C_4$ is $frac35$.



    If you're taking definite integrals, you need to include the limits. Suppose we integrate starting from $x = 1$. Then $u$ starts at $3$. So when we integrate $fracduu$, we have $ln(u)$ at the upper limit, but we have to subtract $ln$ of the lower limit, and the lower limit is $3$. So we have that the definite integral is $ln(u)-ln(3)=ln(frac u3)$. Similarly, for $v$, we get that the definite integral is $ln(frac v 5)$. Plugging in $u=3x$ and $v=5x$, we get $ln(frac 3x3)=ln(frac 5x 5)$, which simplifies to $ln(x)=ln(x)$.






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    If you're taking an indefinite integral, then you need to include constants. Integrating, we get $ln(u)+C_1 = ln(v)+C_2$. We can collect $C_1$ and $C_2$ into one constant by setting $C_3 = C_2-C_1$, getting $ln(u) = ln(v)+C_3$. We can then exponentiate both sides, getting $u=ve^C_3$. Setting $C_4=e^C_3$, this becomes $u=C_4v$. In this case, $C_4$ is $frac35$.



    If you're taking definite integrals, you need to include the limits. Suppose we integrate starting from $x = 1$. Then $u$ starts at $3$. So when we integrate $fracduu$, we have $ln(u)$ at the upper limit, but we have to subtract $ln$ of the lower limit, and the lower limit is $3$. So we have that the definite integral is $ln(u)-ln(3)=ln(frac u3)$. Similarly, for $v$, we get that the definite integral is $ln(frac v 5)$. Plugging in $u=3x$ and $v=5x$, we get $ln(frac 3x3)=ln(frac 5x 5)$, which simplifies to $ln(x)=ln(x)$.







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    • After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
      – CDspace
      Aug 10 at 21:33
















    • After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
      – CDspace
      Aug 10 at 21:33















    After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
    – CDspace
    Aug 10 at 21:33




    After setting $C_3$, the LHS is just $ln(u)$
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    To turn my comment into an answer, your proof is correct up to the step
    $$ fracmathrmd uu = fracmathrmd vv $$



    At that point, as others have said, you forget to add the constants of integration when you integrate:



    $$ ln u + mathrmC_1 = ln v + mathrmC_2 $$



    Substituting $mathrmC = mathrmC_2 - mathrmC_1$ gives us:



    $$beginalign
    ln u &= ln v + mathrmC \
    ln u - ln v &= mathrmC \
    endalign$$



    Substituting for $mathrmC$ in the first equation just gets us $ln u = ln u$, which is clearly no contradiction. A little more interesting, perhaps, is to turn our identity for $mathrmC$, $ln u - ln v$, into $ln fracuv$ and then substitute that into the other equation above to get:



    $$beginalign
    ln u &= ln v + ln fracuv \
    &= ln left( v cdot fracuv right)
    endalign$$



    Now take the exponential of both sides.



    $$beginalign
    u &= v cdot fracuv \
    3x &= 5x cdot frac3x5x \
    3 &= 5 cdot frac35
    endalign$$



    This is presumably what Serge Seredenko meant when he said in his comment that 3 is equal to 5, “[i]n this case multiplied by a constant.”






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      To turn my comment into an answer, your proof is correct up to the step
      $$ fracmathrmd uu = fracmathrmd vv $$



      At that point, as others have said, you forget to add the constants of integration when you integrate:



      $$ ln u + mathrmC_1 = ln v + mathrmC_2 $$



      Substituting $mathrmC = mathrmC_2 - mathrmC_1$ gives us:



      $$beginalign
      ln u &= ln v + mathrmC \
      ln u - ln v &= mathrmC \
      endalign$$



      Substituting for $mathrmC$ in the first equation just gets us $ln u = ln u$, which is clearly no contradiction. A little more interesting, perhaps, is to turn our identity for $mathrmC$, $ln u - ln v$, into $ln fracuv$ and then substitute that into the other equation above to get:



      $$beginalign
      ln u &= ln v + ln fracuv \
      &= ln left( v cdot fracuv right)
      endalign$$



      Now take the exponential of both sides.



      $$beginalign
      u &= v cdot fracuv \
      3x &= 5x cdot frac3x5x \
      3 &= 5 cdot frac35
      endalign$$



      This is presumably what Serge Seredenko meant when he said in his comment that 3 is equal to 5, “[i]n this case multiplied by a constant.”






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        To turn my comment into an answer, your proof is correct up to the step
        $$ fracmathrmd uu = fracmathrmd vv $$



        At that point, as others have said, you forget to add the constants of integration when you integrate:



        $$ ln u + mathrmC_1 = ln v + mathrmC_2 $$



        Substituting $mathrmC = mathrmC_2 - mathrmC_1$ gives us:



        $$beginalign
        ln u &= ln v + mathrmC \
        ln u - ln v &= mathrmC \
        endalign$$



        Substituting for $mathrmC$ in the first equation just gets us $ln u = ln u$, which is clearly no contradiction. A little more interesting, perhaps, is to turn our identity for $mathrmC$, $ln u - ln v$, into $ln fracuv$ and then substitute that into the other equation above to get:



        $$beginalign
        ln u &= ln v + ln fracuv \
        &= ln left( v cdot fracuv right)
        endalign$$



        Now take the exponential of both sides.



        $$beginalign
        u &= v cdot fracuv \
        3x &= 5x cdot frac3x5x \
        3 &= 5 cdot frac35
        endalign$$



        This is presumably what Serge Seredenko meant when he said in his comment that 3 is equal to 5, “[i]n this case multiplied by a constant.”






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        To turn my comment into an answer, your proof is correct up to the step
        $$ fracmathrmd uu = fracmathrmd vv $$



        At that point, as others have said, you forget to add the constants of integration when you integrate:



        $$ ln u + mathrmC_1 = ln v + mathrmC_2 $$



        Substituting $mathrmC = mathrmC_2 - mathrmC_1$ gives us:



        $$beginalign
        ln u &= ln v + mathrmC \
        ln u - ln v &= mathrmC \
        endalign$$



        Substituting for $mathrmC$ in the first equation just gets us $ln u = ln u$, which is clearly no contradiction. A little more interesting, perhaps, is to turn our identity for $mathrmC$, $ln u - ln v$, into $ln fracuv$ and then substitute that into the other equation above to get:



        $$beginalign
        ln u &= ln v + ln fracuv \
        &= ln left( v cdot fracuv right)
        endalign$$



        Now take the exponential of both sides.



        $$beginalign
        u &= v cdot fracuv \
        3x &= 5x cdot frac3x5x \
        3 &= 5 cdot frac35
        endalign$$



        This is presumably what Serge Seredenko meant when he said in his comment that 3 is equal to 5, “[i]n this case multiplied by a constant.”







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