ASTOUNDING: 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + ... = -1/12

so guys lesson today is if someone offers to give you 1 dollar today 2 dollars tomorrow ect ect dont take the deal since he is obviously trying to steal you

i always multiply both sides by zero. Seems to fix things up pretty well.

My IQ increased by -1/12 after watching this

Mathematics when YouTube removes the dislike button:

After having watched this video for infinite times, I realized that my knowledge had increased by a -1/12 factor every time I watched it.

A simple stack overflow bug. God will patch it in the next update.

The analytic continuation of the Riemann Zeta function does indeed map -1 to -1/12, however this does not mean that the sum of all positive integers is -1/12. The whole point of analytic continuation is to extend the function to the domain where the original function is divergent, and after doing that u CANNOT say that the original function maps the analytically continued domain to all these extended points

We were allowed to make an intuitive conclusion about 1-1+1-1…, but weren’t allowed to make a much more intuitive conclusion about 1+2+3…

Top 10 pranks that went too far.

Me before watching this video: liar Me after watching this video: cheater

It seems like there's all kinds of tricks you can pull to get whatever result you want, once you throw rigor out the window. For example, he took the average of 1 + 1 - 1 + ... to get 1/2. You could also do this: 1 - 1 + 1 - 1 ... = (1 + 1 + 1 ...) + (-1 - 1 - 1 ...) = (1 + 1 + 1...) - (1 + 1 + 1...) = 0

I think the biggest assumption is that S1 is 1/2 which I think is the reason why we got all the natural numbers sum to -1/12

Let me prove that 1 = 0, using this premise: S1 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 ... = - 1/12 S1 - S1 = 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 ... - 1 - 2 - 3 - 4 - 5 ... = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 ... Since S1 - S1 = - 1/12 - (- 1/12) = 0 It follows that 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 .... = 0 Let's name this sequence S2: S2 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 ... = 0 Now let's subtract it from itself: S2 - S2 = 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 + 1 ... - 1 - 1 - 1 - 1 .... = 1 Given that S2 equals 0, we can also write this as: 0 - 0 = 1 Which implies that 1 = 0.

To quote a math teacher from my uni: "It's extremely unpleasant to approximate solutions that don't exist."

Trolley Problem: A trolley is on a track headed towards one person, and after this one person is two people, and after that is 3 people, and so on. You can flip a lever to send the trolley onto an empty track. Do you flip the lever?

The limit of the sequence of partial sums of the sequence is not 1/2. It does not exist. Stick to physics.

Tony: "The answer can be either 1 or 0, so we take the average 1/2 Me: "Ok, now that's where you screwed up"

This video represents negative knowledge; if you watch it, you will know less about mathematics than when you started.

This is definitely mathematical hocus-pocus, as one of the primary postulates of mathematics is that the sum of two positive numbers is a positive number. That being true the sum of any number of positive numbers is also a positive number. That being true the sum of all positive numbers is also a positive number. I'm not sure what happened here that allows you to get this obviously incorrect answer oh, but it is obviously incorrect

Mathematician: *calculates something, result doesn't make any sense.* Mathematician: "I define this as correct."