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  Re: 1+2+3+4+... = ?  
From: Le Forgeron
Date: 27 Jul 2015 06:36:32
Message: <55b609b0@news.povray.org>
Le 27/07/2015 11:19, scott a écrit :
> Maybe I'm a bit late to the party here, probably because I'm an Engineer
> rather than a Mathematician, but this seemed a pretty crazy "proof" of
> what you get if you sum all the natural numbers up:
>
>   s= 1+2+3+4+5+6+...
>

Nah, s does *NOT* converge, insisting that s exists get you what you 
deserve: bullshit (unless you are interested in classification of 
divergent series).

Same as asking the maximal value of a Dirac function... lovely object of 
theory, no practical existence.


> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF


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