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Old 11-06-2017, 11:48 AM   #150 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds View Post
Unfortunately, it's not a mathematically valid proof. You can't fiddle with divergent series like that. It's true if you redefine the equals sign, and it's useful for some physics calculations, but the sum of the natural numbers does not equal -1/12.
I thought that infinite series allowed for that?
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