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minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·edit-29 days agoHere you go. By the commutative property of multiplication: 2 + 2x4 = 2 + 24x Rearranging this leads to: x = -1/12 which means that x is the limit of the diverging series: x = 1 + 2 + 3 + …
minus-squareMrScottyTay@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-29 days agoWouldnt 2x4 actually equate to 2 * 4 * x not 24 * x? So it would be 8x?
minus-squarerustydrd@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 days agoRegular multiplication? Sure. But this is Rustydrd multiplication, which assigns different values to products I don’t like.
Solve for x
Here you go. By the commutative property of multiplication:
2 + 2x4 = 2 + 24x
Rearranging this leads to:
x = -1/12
which means that x is the limit of the diverging series:
x = 1 + 2 + 3 + …
Wouldnt 2x4 actually equate to 2 * 4 * x not 24 * x? So it would be 8x?
Regular multiplication? Sure. But this is Rustydrd multiplication, which assigns different values to products I don’t like.
x=4/7