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this was on the wikipedia article
>>9140908

>>8846677
There a clear logical process for arriving at it. It is a value that is relevant and usable. Why do you think its a meme?

>>8562378
>Do you guys believe this,if not demonstrate why not

It's not really a sum...

It's the y intercept of a slope that represents the infinite series.

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

>>8440793
>Wait I thought the whole -1/12 thing was a meme

It's not a meme, it's just represented incorrectly.

The summation series does not equal -1/12

The y intercept of the summation series equals -1/12

As you can see here in the pic related.

>>8425096
Check the y intercept at x=0, yo.

It's easy to confuse yourself with this shit but it's quite simple.

All of the ramanujan summation stuff, cutoff and zeta regularization do is look at the smoothed curve at x = 0. What sums usually do is to look at the value as x->inf.

It's just a unique value you can assign to a sum, really they have many such values.

>>6681030

>>6405818
>everyone on this thread who says you can't sum divergent series

You can't sum divergant series.

-1/12 is a y intercept of a function defined as the divergent series (1+2+3+4+5+6+7....)

Pic related: See the green line? That represents 1+2+3+4+5+6+7+....

See where the green line intercepts the y axis?

-1/12 isn't a sum, it's a description of a divergent series using a formula that ISN'T classical summation.