Also, googling around one will find the question has been asked (and answered) already:
http://ask.metafilter.com/25060/Whats-the-sum-of-all-integers Cheers, Tsjerk On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvor...@gmail.com> wrote: > or even better: > > http://mathoverflow.net/ > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsem...@comcast.net> > wrote: >> >> On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Maithula Chandrashekhar wrote: >> >>> Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with >>> Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. >>> However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up >>> with some elegant suggestion to my question. >>> >>> Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers? I somewhere heard >>> that it is Zero as positive and negative integers will just cancel >>> each other out. However want to know is it correct? >> >> There are more appropriate places to pose such questions: >> http://math.stackexchange.com/ >> >> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. > -- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. post-doctoral researcher Molecular Dynamics Group * Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology * Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen The Netherlands ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.