• Bloody Harry@feddit.de
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    1 year ago

    It’s a post I’m too stupid to fully understand, yet I know too much to not comprehend the gist

    shit

    • lasagna@programming.dev
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      1 year ago

      It’s a sum with n from 1 to infinity. The first value with n=1 is 3/4, with n=2 it’s 3/16. And if you keep adding those terms as n goes to infinity it approaches 1 but never gets there.

      Then if you look back at the meme, you could zoom in for infinity and always find a smaller square.

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        1 year ago

        An additional part of the joke is that showing this through the area of a square is a geometric proof that this series converges the way it does.

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          Rather than algebraically. Feels like we’re all converging towards explaining the joke but never quite fully get there.