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Old 11-06-2017, 12:06 PM   #151 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by Frownland View Post
I thought that infinite series allowed for that?
Not when they diverge, which the alternating 1 -1 + 1 - 1 + ... does. If it was the actual sum, you could calculate infinity to be -1/2 plus or minus squrt(1/3).

https://plus.maths.org/content/infinity-or-just-112
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