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4.2 - 1 = 3.2. Simples.
This was my first reaction. But one way of showing that arithmetic is inconsistent would be to show that under it's axioms some very very large number (edit: I mean integer, thanks Stuart) was equal to 3.2.
Some very large integer.
Huh, integer. I don't know how that got past me when I wrote that.