Those Numberphile Guys Lied To Me...

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Those Numberphile Guys Lied To Me...

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Poor doggo just discovered the wild world of mathematical trickery! The infamous Numberphile video claimed that 1+2+3+4+... = -1/12, which sounds like mathematical witchcraft. But wait! The truth is that this sum actually diverges to infinity (it keeps growing forever)!

What's happening here is a classic case of mathematical sleight of hand. That -1/12 result comes from analytical continuation in complex analysis and string theory shenanigans - not the direct sum we learned in school. It's like being told chocolate is healthy and then reading the fine print that says "only if you eat one microscopic crumb per century."

No wonder our furry friend is crying mathematical tears! Finding out your whole number-adding life was built on quicksand would make anyone howl at the moon!

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