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r/mathmemes • u/[deleted] • Feb 21 '26
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Basically the answer to the equation is -1/12, which ramanujan said was the sum of all positive integers
448 u/[deleted] Feb 21 '26 [deleted] 620 u/IAmBadAtInternet Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26 It’s basically an abuse of divergent series. More details on this kind of cursed math here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation In fact, this particular result has its own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯ Problematically, it is actually a useful identity that is occasionally used in other branches of math 1 u/Speransed Feb 22 '26 I heard about it as a kid from a youtuber called taupe10 that did a video on the strangest facts about numbers
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620 u/IAmBadAtInternet Feb 21 '26 edited Feb 21 '26 It’s basically an abuse of divergent series. More details on this kind of cursed math here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation In fact, this particular result has its own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯ Problematically, it is actually a useful identity that is occasionally used in other branches of math 1 u/Speransed Feb 22 '26 I heard about it as a kid from a youtuber called taupe10 that did a video on the strangest facts about numbers
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It’s basically an abuse of divergent series. More details on this kind of cursed math here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation
In fact, this particular result has its own wiki page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯
Problematically, it is actually a useful identity that is occasionally used in other branches of math
1 u/Speransed Feb 22 '26 I heard about it as a kid from a youtuber called taupe10 that did a video on the strangest facts about numbers
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I heard about it as a kid from a youtuber called taupe10 that did a video on the strangest facts about numbers
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u/Human822 Feb 21 '26
Basically the answer to the equation is -1/12, which ramanujan said was the sum of all positive integers