http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-I6XTVZXww

My head hurts.

Impressive, thanks for the link :-)

poorly explained. we had a fb argument about this a while back. if it's the same video as what i saw (i'm refusing to watch it again), there were a lot of assumptions made and not explained, and a lot of incorrect terminology (equals vs approximates, sum vs summation were the two big ones)

it's actually an explanation of some zeta-something-or-another function that is used to approximate a divergent series. a really crappy one. i think the title i saw on the video was "YOUR MIND WILL BE BLOWN YOU WILL BE AMAZED" and i suppose it was partially accurate. my mind was blown that people that should know better on the mathematics side chose such a poor example of explaining what's apparently a pretty core concept in the upper ranges of calculus :P

Ok, I realize that they simplified it for the youtube masses(myself included), but don't understand the whole 2s2 part...'So now I'm gonna add s2 to itself, but I'm gonna just shift it over a bit'

Somehow the whole 'just shift it over' bit doesn't make sense to me.

based on 10 as the plus point, will his still work if 4 is the whole? i am to lazy to try!

He isn't defining the problem in detail so it looks funny out of context.
In the physics example there are a pile of definitions that are changing the way infinity and "+" and "-" work in order to get that result. In general you can't define convergence for an alternating series but remember there are multiple kinds of infinities of varying sizes so if you change your starting point you can get answers like that.

this fluffs all wrong fluff that dude bonus

MRW i thread this thread

http://ibankcoin.com/...og/files/2013/01/OGRE.jpg

Square root of 1 and infinity are not real numbers.

I have received new incite into this!!! but I am to drunk to share

I dont personally care...bonus!