The staff of Numberphile has shown that the sum of all the integers from 0 to ∞ is −112. Recently I was looking for the sum of all the (positive) integers from 0 to n and I found that:
n∑i=0i=n(n+1)2
So I decided to take the limit:
limn→∞n(n+1)2
but that tends towards ∞ when I expected that to be −112!
Where did I got wrong? (the result is also confirmed by Wolfram Alpha)
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
limits - Sum of all the positive integers problem
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