3 ms·
Oy mate! Don't you have a pint of cider to drink in a cozy pub somewhere instead of producing videos of such bollocks? The series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n$ is dive
by ivan_ah 13y ago
Oy mate! Don't you have a pint of cider to drink in a cozy pub somewhere instead of producing videos of such bollocks?
The series $\sum_{n=1}^\infty n$ is divergent, so you can't say anything about its sum. For more info on the 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 +1 ... see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Grandi's_series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Grandi's_series
This quote from the page is telling:
G. H. Hardy dismisses both of these as "little more than nonsense."
- mathnoob 13y agoIt is not totally nonsense but the use of the benign sign = associating the analytic continuation of a series where it converges to a place where it does not without huge warning is not very rigorous.