The Russians have so many diamonds that it would completely collapse the market.

http://newsfeed.time.com/2012/09/26/rus ... -reserves/

is "The Russians" AI's new nickname? lol

well not science but math


but physicists use the formula in string theory so...

if you add all of the natural numbers towards infinity, the answer is not infinity, it's -1/12

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww#t=68

so awesome

i dont even

he lost me once he started subtracting and I wasn't sure why he was doing that

but yeah, -12

you guys'll believe anything

Haven't watched it yet. Assuming it's just a troll

nope, it's all real math and has its roots all the way to a 1700's italian mathematician

italians pfft

snopes says it's fake

snopes says your post is fake

Thinks get weird around infinity and zero. Also, multiplying a negative by a negative yielding a positive is weird.

Not even close to a mathematician, but I think the first step, taking the average of 1 and 0 to get s1=.5 is a bit hinky. I get all schrodinger here--the cat is both alive and dead, not half alive and half dead. Also, while s1 and s2 draw an intuitive inference (you keep doing this forever and you'll get this) s3 does something quite different--the intuitive answer (a really huge number) is tossed out. Ok, fine. But then why do we allow intuition in the process at all? Maybe S1 is really not 1, 0, or .5 at all as we approach infinity.

Since you can't have a number larger than infinity, infinity plus one is the same as infinity. Therefore, if A= infinity then

A+1 = A

Subtract A from each side and you get

1 = 0

If you understand what's wrong with that example you understand what's wrong with that video. Infinity is a concept, not a number, and you can't insert concepts into algebraic equations.

OH YEAH I BET YOU THINK YOU CAN GET TO THAT WALL WHEN MATHEMATICALLY I CAN PROVE THAT YOU CAN NEVER REACH IT

ashton wrote:Since you can't have a number larger than infinity, infinity plus one is the same as infinity. Therefore, if A= infinity then

A+1 = A

Subtract A from each side and you get

1 = 0

If you understand what's wrong with that example you understand what's wrong with that video. Infinity is a concept, not a number, and you can't insert concepts into algebraic equations.

Aren't numbers concepts?

Abstacts of physical concepts

science

TenuredVulture wrote:Thinks get weird around infinity and zero. Also, multiplying a negative by a negative yielding a positive is weird.

Not even close to a mathematician, but I think the first step, taking the average of 1 and 0 to get s1=.5 is a bit hinky. I get all schrodinger here--the cat is both alive and dead, not half alive and half dead. Also, while s1 and s2 draw an intuitive inference (you keep doing this forever and you'll get this) s3 does something quite different--the intuitive answer (a really huge number) is tossed out. Ok, fine. But then why do we allow intuition in the process at all? Maybe S1 is really not 1, 0, or .5 at all as we approach infinity.

There's another video that shows the proof of 1-1+1-1....is .5