When Infinity Breaks Your Calculator

When Infinity Breaks Your Calculator
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Ever had that moment when math breaks your brain? This is infinite series sorcery at its finest!

The meme shows a geometric series (1+2+4+8+16+...) that seems to be heading to infinity. But through some clever algebraic manipulation, our stick figure friend discovers that S = -1.

This is actually a famous mathematical paradox with divergent series! The trick is that the standard rules for finite sums don't always work with infinite series. It's like dividing by zero - mathematically rebellious!

The stick figure's journey from blissful ignorance to existential crisis is every math student hitting that first mind-bending proof. Welcome to the club, buddy - where intuition goes to die and mathematicians laugh maniacally!

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