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Anonymous Thu Oct 20 08:52:41 2016 No.8425096 [Reply] [Original]

Why does the Riemann zeta function equal to -1/12 at -1? I don't understand.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 08:53:34 2016 No.8425101 File: 24 KB, 240x193, image.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] post yfw roothoot wasn't in the leaks

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 09:24:30 2016 No.8425150 >>8425096 Do you understand the derivation of the functional equation? That's how all of the obvious extended values are computed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 09:49:59 2016 No.8425189 >>8425150 I thought the analytic continuation was derivated from the integral form? That's why I find a negative value weird, there can't be a negative area

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 10:27:59 2016 No.8425237 >>8425189 >there can't be a negative area But there can be negative area. Integrate sin(x) from 0 to 2pi, the result is 0 because the area below the x axis is considered negative.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 12:44:59 2016 No.8425454 >>8425237 Tfw I gotta study calculus I again

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 13:10:18 2016 No.8425508 >>8425454 how the fuck do you not know this? integrals calculate NET area. that's literally first year calc info.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 20 19:36:10 2016 No.8426124 File: 14 KB, 600x600, sum1234summary.svg.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>8425096 Check the y intercept at x=0, yo.