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Is this an antijoke or did I just need to know where it's going, like the bartender? Maybe the bartender is confused?
by smolder 6y ago
Is this an antijoke or did I just need to know where it's going, like the bartender?
Maybe the bartender is confused?
- evanb 6y agoThis joke relies on the listener knowing that the regularized sum of 1+2+3+... = -1/12.
- enriquto 6y agoThat's what makes it funny!
- Thorondor 6y agoThe joke is that the Ramanujan sum of 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... is equal to -1/12, so the check should be $3 * -1/12 = minus one quarter. [0] [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B...
- smolder 6y agoThanks, that's a bit of math trivia I either forgot or never learned.