Recent content by TNorthover

Just doing what comes naturally. Our Bonfire Night (5th Nov) is a celebration of the last time we tried it on our own parliament. It didn't work that time, though.

Nice, I had a quick look for an actual alternative "evaluation" of 1 + 2 + ..., but didn't think to try that.

There it's justified by various theorems that start with "if a series is absolutely convergent...". 1+2+3+4+... manifestly isn't, and I think Jesse is exactly correct: there may be a justification for your manipulations, but the mere fact that they look like finite arithmetic isn't it. And...