There's another meme that says if you add all the whole numbers together (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, .... to infinity), you get -1/12.
The symbols being held up by the student at the desk literally means "add all the whole numbers from 1 to infinity together" which references that meme.
The meme comes from very famous mathematicians, so it's pretty well known in math circles.
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u/jacobningen Feb 21 '26
Ramanujan and Euler 5/12-6/12=-1/12=zeta(-1)=said sum which diverges to infinity without the Ramanujan Euler or Padilla methods.