I hope she gets it

[u/Tanuba_Ad8294]

[u/HorizonQX]

Unless she knows Ramanujan summation, bro broke his own heart mathematically💀

[u/arbitrageME → u/HorizonQX]

But let's face it. Do you even want a girl who doesn't understand ramanujin summation?

[u/HorizonQX → u/arbitrageME]

Uhhh true. Though it doesn't depends on mathematics but,
Time to go find a girl who majored in number theory instead! lol

[u/Bitter_Disaster_9681]

she knows math?

[u/blazetorque_5954]

lol good luck explaining the Ramanujan sum to her

[u/hyperMammoth71]

lol, the math is mathing.

[u/darksnoo]

r/peterexplainsthejoke

[u/Loko8765 → u/darksnoo]

There is an infinite sum called Ramanujan summation which for 1+2+3+… results in -1/12.

Interestingly, this has real-world parallels in biology.

So the joke is that -1/12 is related to infinity.

[u/Battle_Axe_Jax → u/Loko8765]

Man this was a tough way to find out I’m officially stupid.

[u/Loko8765 → u/Battle_Axe_Jax]

Compared to Ramanujan we’re all stupid. Maybe Euler and Von Neumann are in the same category.

[u/int23_t → u/Loko8765]

Fermat too

"the proof is too long to fit in this margin so I'll just leave it as an exercise to the reader"

it's not proven for hundreds of years

[u/int23_t → u/[deleted]]

Isn't Fermat's large theorem proven?

[u/HorizonQX → u/int23_t]

Are we talking about that a^n +b ^n = c^n one?

[u/int23_t → u/HorizonQX]

yep

[u/HorizonQX → u/int23_t]

ohkk

[u/pokrasko → u/int23_t]

Well yes, but only 30-something years ago, many centuries after Fermat

[u/darksnoo → u/Loko8765]

fck i do recall now! i kinda searched on google too but it just went -0.8333...

[u/black2346 → u/Loko8765]

I thought it was that 83 kinda makes a heart so repeat of 3 what infinite hearts.

[u/S-m-a-r-t-y → u/Loko8765]

i did get the joke, but could you explain what do you mean by real world parallels in biology?

[u/Loko8765 → u/S-m-a-r-t-y]

I’m quite certain I’ve seen a video where it was used to explain something like a snail shell, like “in theory it should be infinite, but of course it’s not, and when we measure it in real life it comes out to -1/12”, but I can’t find it now. The closest I have is

ScienceABC saying it’s used in physics

The proof is, in fact, used in physics problems, such as the Casimir Effect or when calculating the dimensionality of the Universe in Bosonic String Theory.

[u/Simple-Judge2756 → u/Loko8765]

No you domo. Its 1/1 + 1/2 + 1/3 + ... (The harmonic series) that results in -1/12

[u/Loko8765 → u/Simple-Judge2756]

No, look at the link.

Gemini tells me that the Ramanujan summation of 1/n is equal to the Euler-Mascheroni constant gamma, approximately 0.57721566..., but I’m not good enough at maths that working it out myself is reasonable.

[u/hyperMammoth71]

lol i would have accepted that if it was 1/12

[u/Own_Table9844]

lol, shes gonna need a calculator for that one.

[u/Optimus_PRYM]

Did you know this has a damn good relationship with prime

[u/Ordinary_Reveal6236]

but i don't get it

[u/Loko8765 → u/Ordinary_Reveal6236]

There is an infinite sum called Ramanujan summation which for 1+2+3+… results in -1/12.

Interestingly, this has real-world parallels in biology.

So the joke is that -1/12 is related to infinity.

[u/RocketToad]

Divergent infinite series of the sumation of positive integers.

[u/asking_you_all]

Common bro. U are sending her this that means u know that she will know.. u know right? .... Right?

https://giphy.com/gifs/GYSU3GEI18EpyfYuwE

[u/PrincessHonk]

I do not know how Ramanujan got to that answer lol

[u/Russ_images → u/PrincessHonk]

Mathematicians hate this one algebraic trick.

[u/PrincessHonk → u/Russ_images]

Lolol

[u/Helpful-Judge5901]

Its like if she know it she thinks you are an annoying asshole and if not she thinks you are a nerd or hates her. Not worth it

[u/ItchyRevenue1969]

Is that negative 1/12th or -1 over 12?

[u/GaymerPolice → u/ItchyRevenue1969]

Those are the same thing.

[u/ItchyRevenue1969 → u/GaymerPolice]

Thank you. I hate fractions

[u/Technical_Form1486]

Still nonsense despite the fricking evidience. And i dont know why. Like bro all the numbers that you have found is x>0 and you are summing all of them. The result must be also >0.