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ASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12
Posted 10 years ago by SgrayT in category: geeky
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(guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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Bullshit

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Kurbaanani (guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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He JUST gave you an explonation and you are questioning it with a bullshit. Well played Sir, well played.

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(guest) - 10 years ago
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  Well, Sir, I just happen to think that their "explanation" is so blatantly bullshit that it doesn't deserve any further questioning. 

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It only works like that because they *decided* to do an average of possible answers for the first equation. The real answer to the first would be {0,1}. 0 OR 1. The answer is never 1/2. And then it screws up all the other results.

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hi (guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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My sister has a doctorate in mathematics. This is not correct: "An infinite sum is the limit of the partial sums. 1+1-1+1-1.. is a limit that doesn't converge since the sequence (1,0,1,0,..) doesn't converge. And if you sum 2 series, you sum 2 limits whereas in the video you're adding them term by term, which you cannot do. " And she ended with "Ahhh those physicists!

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Alex (guest) - 10 years ago
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  Tell your sister to watch this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCu_BNNI5x4 (at least the first 3 minutes) They skipped over these details, as they said, because it had already been done in that video. 

causeby - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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"You either get zero or one, so you just take the average." Uh, no you don't. You can't add integers and end up with a fraction. You can't add positive numbers and end up with a negative number. Wave your hands all you want, it's plain nonsense.

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Shane (guest) - 10 years ago [ Reply ]
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Can you do a proof by induction

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