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If you add every integer together, 1 to infinity, what do you get?

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by StupidMoniker, May 16, 2025.

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What is the sum of all positive integers?

  1. Infinity

    9 vote(s)
    81.8%

  2. -1/12

    2 vote(s)
    18.2%
  1. StupidMoniker

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    This is objectively the dumbest thing I have seen proposed on the internet today, and likely this year.
     
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    @StupidMoniker this did make me go down a number theory rabbit hole last night.

    But this guy would’ve failed me if I suggested that I can use Ramanujan’s work to “prove” a diverging series as basic as 1+2+3+… is anything but approaches infinity.

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    Forté Threeve +/- 1
     
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    You get your mother's weight.
     
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    Hmmm...

    ζ(−1)=1+2+3+4+⋯= 8646 +1
     
    #9 KingCheetah, May 17, 2025
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    Ramanujan : "We don't need no stinkin proofs!"

    Have you read the book "The Man Who Knew Infinity"? I think there's a movie about him by the same name, too. It's crazy how many geniuses out there were taken from us before their time. Ramanujans definitely among the more incredible ones.
     
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    What is an integer? Going back to the GARM where things make more sense.
     
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