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>>8773748
the statement is not "if you add up all the positive integers you get -1/12".
that's fucking stupid. you can't sum infinitely many things.
if you think that anyone with a proper mathematics education believes the above statement then you are delusional.

the real statement is that "there exists a method of assigning values to infinite series, which (a) agrees with the familiar limit-of-partial-sums when both are defined, (b) has great number theoretical significance, and (c) assigns the value -1/12 to the series whose summands are the positive integers."

please stop pretending that your deeply flawed understanding of pop math topics is accurate, it makes you look like a moron.
maybe read a fucking book. here's one: "introduction to analytic number theory" by apostol. it's big and yellow and has fun little squares on it you can look at when you're done pretending you can do big boy math.