Comment on Magic

mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• PlexSheep@infosec.pub ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Under very special circumstances an argument can be made for this, at least

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  • lolcatnip@reddthat.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not really. The left side comes from trying to evaluate the Reimann zeta function at a point outside its domain, and the right side comes from evaluating the analytic continuation of the zeta function at the same point. The deepest truth it reveals is that applying the definition of a function outside its domain can give you nonsense results.

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Never understood those circumstances, but I choose to believe that all even numbers summed are therefore -2/12 and all odd numbers therefore 1/12.

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• wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  That’s where I assumed it was going.

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