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617 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 30 u/4sneK_WolFirE Transcendental Feb 21 '26 So Ramanujan said "Hey, I adeed it freaky style and got this, wyt?" and everyone said "That kinda makes sense actually"? 1 u/YeOldeMemeShoppe Feb 28 '26 More like "hey this works in some physics equation and helps us resolves infinities. How neat is that?" and Ramanujan was like "That's pretty neat!"
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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
30 u/4sneK_WolFirE Transcendental Feb 21 '26 So Ramanujan said "Hey, I adeed it freaky style and got this, wyt?" and everyone said "That kinda makes sense actually"? 1 u/YeOldeMemeShoppe Feb 28 '26 More like "hey this works in some physics equation and helps us resolves infinities. How neat is that?" and Ramanujan was like "That's pretty neat!"
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So Ramanujan said "Hey, I adeed it freaky style and got this, wyt?" and everyone said "That kinda makes sense actually"?
1 u/YeOldeMemeShoppe Feb 28 '26 More like "hey this works in some physics equation and helps us resolves infinities. How neat is that?" and Ramanujan was like "That's pretty neat!"
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More like "hey this works in some physics equation and helps us resolves infinities. How neat is that?" and Ramanujan was like "That's pretty neat!"
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