This is a fun one, because of course the kneejerk rejection of the statement "1+2+3+4+5+... = -1/12" is correct Under everyday, ordinary grade-school arithmetic, the answer can't be "-1/12" -- but the answer can't be any other number either, the operation itself is not possiblehttps://twitter.com/tomgabion/status/1289857027381002241 …
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So, in other words, he went to infinity...and beyond?
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There's an infinite number of infinities He even went ahead and defined "absolute infinity" (Ω) and said that's the name for an infinity so big that none of the properties he'd just mathematically explored applied to it
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"average person knows about ∞" factoid actualy just statistical error. average person knows nothing about ∞. Cantor Georg, who lives in cave & describes ℵ0 each day, is an outlier adn should not have been counted
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