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[-] rumba@lemmy.zip 42 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 8 points 4 days ago

Hello, I play with numbers:

1+2+3+...=S
S-S=1+2+3+4+...
     -1-2-3-...=
1+1+1+1+...=S-S=0

Moral of the story: ones together are nothing.

Thank you for your attention.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.zip 0 points 4 days ago

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.

[-] TwilightKiddy@programming.dev 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

It's an infinite series, love, I just moved it, there are still enough elements in them because, well, they are infinite. If you are so sad about it, write the second one as 0-S, changes nothing but now you have a donut to pair up with the 1 in the first series.