On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 6:38 AM, R.E. Boss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry my answer took a while, but I attended a lecture on "Infinite 
> bookkeeping", from which I learned that
> 1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+1-1+.....= 1r2 (the dots meaning 'ad infinitum') and
> 1-2+3-4+5-6+.... = _1r4 ,
> unfortunately this cannot be experienced with J.

Well... https://plus.maths.org/content/infinity-or-just-112 touches on
this subject.

I guess this is a call for spending at least a little time
distinguishing the mistakes from the changes in notation.

-- 
Raul
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