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1. 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:10:21 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

   LOL you guys get it?

   \[\infty - 4 \cdot \infty = \frac{1}{4}\]

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:28:47 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG yup, isolate the \(\infty\) and it might give you a hint as to the source of the joke.. if not ill give you the whole bit

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:32:34 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG You may not know enough math to get it to be honest.. If you don;t see it now you probably wont get it :)

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:34:51 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG

     Answer here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_%E2%8B%AF#Heuristics

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:37:57 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG You wouldnt be the first person. Yet somehow it seems to work in the real world...

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 18:45:05 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG Its a common math joke, people say \(\infty = -\frac{1}{12}\) for the lawls.

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 19:03:30 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG Well thats the joke. In reality no mathematician is claiming that infinity is equal to \(-\frac{1}{12}\) thats the joke.

     What they are claiming however is that depending on what process you use to sum up all the natural numbers, you will get either infinity or \(-\frac{1}{12}\). In other words it is another (valid) way to sum the infinite series to get a real value.

     As a bit of an analogy we know the \(\sqrt{100}\) is equal to both -10 and 10. But despite that fact we can not go so far as to claim -10 and 10 are equal to each other.

   • 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org)'s status on Monday, 02-Dec-2019 19:07:47 UTC 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱

     • Rob G.

     @design_RG Well thats the joke. In reality no mathematician is claiming that infinity is equal to \(-\frac{1}{12}\) thats the joke.

     What they are claiming however is that depending on what process you use to sum up all the natural numbers, you will get either infinity or \(-\frac{1}{12}\). In other words it is another (valid) way to sum the infinite series to get a real value.

     As a bit of an analogy we know the roots of 100 are both -10 and 10. But despite that fact we can not go so far as to claim -10 and 10 are equal to each other.