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Title: Sum of alternating primes Post by JocK on Aug 4th, 2007, 9:44am can you regularise 2 - 3 + 5 - 7 + 11 - 13 + 17 - 19 + 23 - 29 + 31 - 37 + ... ??? |
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Title: Re: Sum of alternating primes Post by towr on Aug 4th, 2007, 11:27am What is 'regularising'? |
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Title: Re: Sum of alternating primes Post by Eigenray on Aug 4th, 2007, 9:52pm For example, 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + ... "=" [hide]-1/12[/hide], and 1*2*3*4*... "=" [hide]\sqrt{2\pi}[/hide], by a naive interpretation of [hide]zeta(-1) and zeta'(0)[/hide], respectively. |
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Title: Re: Sum of alternating primes Post by JocK on Aug 5th, 2007, 2:03am Some more background can be found in: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divergent_series |
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