A mathematical conundrum...

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Originally Posted by cdcox

It doesn't. It is equal to positive infinity.

The video I posted covers all of the zeta function stuff, but it still doesn't make that series converge to -1/12.

Yeah, I watched the first part of it and he confirmed what I thought when the first group tried to say the first sum converged to 1/2. I knew that was bogus because it simply oscillates between 0 and 1. It's undefined. Like the second series has no solution either. apples + oranges <> pineapples.