[R] A Math question

Tsjerk Wassenaar tsjerkw at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 05:58:00 CET 2011


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
<kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:
> or even better:
>
> http://mathoverflow.net/
>
> On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at 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
>>
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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
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