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Mosby

(16,297 posts) Mon Jan 20, 2014, 06:15 PM Jan 2014

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Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12

Last edited Mon Jan 20, 2014, 08:04 PM - Edit history (1)

It's just algebra!

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Why the sum of all positive integers is -1/12 (Original Post) Mosby Jan 2014 OP

There's another thread... pokerfan Jan 2014 #1

thanks Mosby Jan 2014 #2

Nonconverging sequences can be "shown" to sum to almost anything ... eppur_se_muova Jan 2014 #3

pokerfan

(27,677 posts)

1. There's another thread...

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 09:43 PM

Jan 2014

http://www.democraticunderground.com/122826151

Mosby

(16,297 posts)

2. thanks

Reply to pokerfan (Reply #1)

Mon Jan 20, 2014, 10:21 PM

Jan 2014

eppur_se_muova

(36,257 posts)

3. Nonconverging sequences can be "shown" to sum to almost anything ...

Reply to Mosby (Original post)

Wed Jan 22, 2014, 05:15 PM

Jan 2014

just change the order of summation, and you get different results.

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