Saturday, October 15, 2011

2011/075) 2+4+8+16+32+... equals -1

for a proof of it refer to

adding past infinity

of course it is not rue.

where is the fallacy

the problem is in the line

2+ 4 +8+ 16 ...
-1 -2 -4 -8 -16 + ...

if we realise that in the 1st line there is one extra term and that is not infinitesimal to be ignored( the sum diverges and does not converge we see that one term that should not be left out is ignored

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