Mind-blowing! 1+2+3+4…= -1/12

The title must have left you bewildered! One might say that this is not possible and not at all practical. Why would the sum of all the positive numbers be equal to negative 1/12? This article will explain this to you.

To start,
Let a constant C , be equal to 1+2+3+4…

C=1+2+3+4…
4C=4(1+2+3+4..)=4+8+12…
Now, subtract the second equation from the first but here, shift the numbers in the second equation one place left (which is allowed!)

C=1+2+3+4…
- 4C= 4 + 8…
-3C=1 -2 + 3…
-3C=1-2+3-4+5…

Actually, (1-2+3-4…) = (However crazy this may seem it is true!)
So,
-3C=
-3C = =
-3C=
C= X -3
C=
With the result C= 1+2+3+4…= would you still not believe this?
The mathematician who discovered this was Srinivasa Ramanujan, an Indian mathematical mind. He had suggested this and many other astonishing results in his letter to the English mathematician G.H Hardy.
Doesn’t this prove how erratic mathematics can be?
-Adithya Haniyamballi,8B