OT: 1+2+3+4+5.... = not what you'd think.

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on January 9, 2014 at 11:50am

that's awesome.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 9, 2014 at 12:01pm

This might help!

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 9, 2014 at 12:03pm

And for all you Higgs/Adele Fans

Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on January 9, 2014 at 1:18pm

...someone was going to do it, might as well be me.

Permalink Reply by Danny Boyes on January 9, 2014 at 1:27pm

nice

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 9, 2014 at 1:40pm

Panels accept text, and there's a symbol like that in most fonts.

This is a real screenshot (no doctoring):

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Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 9, 2014 at 1:54pm

Well, Vicente clearly doctored his image. There's no way you can actually compute that result in a finite amount of time. You need a clever proof which Grasshopper can't do.

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on January 9, 2014 at 2:10pm

There's another panel underneath the one with the infinity symbol that contains a finite number. There's also another panel behind the mass addition component with the text -1/12.

I really didn't think anyone would believe it's real, but I give a ~20% chance that David will special case it to work in case someone else tries it.

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 9, 2014 at 2:13pm

If it was a single component I could hack it, but here you need to pump an infinitely long list of numbers between Series and Mass Addition.

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Permalink Reply by Vicente Soler on January 9, 2014 at 2:26pm

I was thinking something like, if you plug infinity to the series component and the step size is 1, it returns a single element, called "infinite list of natural numbers" or so. If you plug that to the mass addition component it returns -0.08333333.

I'm aware this would be completely useless for anything else and the waste of time probably doesn't justify the Easter egg, that's why I gave it a 20% chance :P

Permalink Reply by David Rutten on January 9, 2014 at 1:35pm

The panel would actually say -0.08333333 if this were real, but fair enough.

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Permalink Reply by David Stasiuk on January 9, 2014 at 1:35pm