Me, having dyscalculia: ok
I get the physics one but not the math one
Feels like a risky click. I’m not sure my worldview can take any more shattering. It’s already shattered I tell you. SHATTERED.
The math one uses the fact that 1 + 2 + 3 + … “=” -1/12, where the equality is in the sense of Ramanujan summation. Classically, the series diverges, so using the equality sign is a bit deceptive. However, in some contexts, it is meaningful to assign a sum to divergent series.
I believe you, but that made about as much sense to me as when Wesley saves the ship by reversing the polarity of the navigational deflector array.
And that -1/12 bs is why I cannot math.
1+2+3 … tends toward infinity and there’s no amount of playing with numbers will convince me otherwise.
And that -1/12 bs is why I cannot math.
it’s not actually math. It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.
it’s not actually math.
It literally is math tho
It’s people coming up with alternative definitions and then feeling smug when their alternative definitions give weird results.
Yeah because these weird definitions might be useful in some other context.
None of those contexts include ordering a number of beers
Hello, I play with numbers:
1+2+3+...=S S-S=1+2+3+4+... -1-2-3-...= 1+1+1+1+...=S-S=0Moral of the story: ones together are nothing.
Thank you for your attention.
lol 1-1, 2-2 etc.
How do you get 1 + 2-1?
You need to distribute that minus sign to all numbers in the sequence. You can’t leave off the first one.
He has a plus one, and a minus one, a plus two, and a minus two, and so on. This is analogous to how conditionally convergent series can be modified to give any finite (or infinite) sum merely by changing the order of the terms.
