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Not sure what you mean by the last sentence here, can you elaborate? What I'm saying is that the fact that this strange mathematical result happens to give corr
by egjerlow 10y ago
Not sure what you mean by the last sentence here, can you elaborate? What I'm saying is that the fact that this strange mathematical result happens to give correct results in a physical experiment must be a pointer to something.
- jiiam 10y agoWhat I'm saying is that there is no strange mathematical result whatsoever related to the sum of the positive integers, which should be the only meaning reserved to 1+2+3+... There are stuff like this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%C2%B7_%C2%B7_%C2%B7 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%C2%B7..., but writing 1+2+3+... = -1/12 is purely formal and pretending to deduce it from physics is silly because you are not performing any sum at all.