re: It's time to have your mind blown

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youre an itiot...

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Based on...?

Ramanujan Summations

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Ramanujan summation is a technique invented by the mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan for assigning a value to infinite divergent series. Although the Ramanujan summation of a divergent series is not a sum in the traditional sense, it has properties which make it mathematically useful in the study of divergent infinite series, for which conventional summation is undefined.

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If you scroll down to the section on divergent series, they have the 1 + 2 + 3 + ... example. But the sum of the natural numbers in a traditional "arithmetic" sense is divergent-- or infinite. What they're using in the video is more of a tool that allows for the math to work out on some problems, but it's not the same thing-- if that makes any sense at all.

I don't care about stuff that comes from reddit, but when you take a bunch of people's posts and don't even link to where you got it, it's pretty shitty IMO. whatever though.

I guess that I get some elements of the concept, but I don't entirely put all the pieces together in a way that makes sense to me. What determines when either concept is appropriate to use or when the Ramanujan summation won't work? Or is that getting too technical or unexplainable?