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#1 2022-11-03 18:59:57

imcute
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Registered: 2022-09-28
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Infinity series

∑(-1)^x->1-1+1-1+1.......->1/1-(-1)->1/2
When one takes one
plus one from one plus one
and on and on but ends
anon then starts again,
then some sum to one,
zero sum other ones.
One wonders who'd have won
had stopped not been done;
had he summed every bit
untill the infinite


Lest you should think that such
less well known sums are much
ado about nonsense
I do give these two cents:
The universe has got
an answer which is not
what most would first surmise,
it is a compromise,
and though it gives a laugh
the universe gives it "half".


(actual computation shows 0.5000000000000001,which is done by adding the floatation unit (0.1+0.2) and multipling it by 5/3)

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