The All New Occasionally Aussie P+B Quiz League and ☕ Occasional Cup ☕

[Dee Man]

5/10. Back in the game.

[supermik]

7/10.

[supermik]

5 hours ago, Cardinal Richelieu said:

And another middling 5 for me. 

Still waiting for @supermik's answer to the tie break earlier in this page!

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[Swarley]

3, knew 2 (Mexico & Mainwaring)

[Cardinal Richelieu]

1 hour ago, supermik said:

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sorry mate. fat fingers again. meant @deej !

Edited December 14, 2016 by Cardinal Richelieu

[Leeds Saint]

5, plummeting down the table. Will the glory days of a second placed finish ever return, 

[Ross.]

8/10. This pleases me.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

There are three teams dining at the helm of the top table at the moment, including newly promoted Alang1993. Deej is MIA!

Position	Team	Trophy Cabinet	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Total
1	Eckthearab	5x②	7	7	7			21
2	Frankie S	1x©	6	8	7			21
3	Alang1993	3x© 1xBEAZER	6	7	8			21
4	Arabdownunder	1x©	6	6	8			20
5	Bully Wee Villa	1x©	5	6	6			17
6	Blackislekillie		5	6	6			17
7	Ross.		4	5	8			17
8	Welshbairn		5	5	6			16
9	Supermik		4	5	7			16
10	WILLIEA		6	5	4			15
11	Leeds Saint	1x© 2x②	7	3	5			15
12	WhiteRoseKillie	6x© 3x②	6	8				14
13	Jagfox99		6	4	4			14
14	Deej	2x②	6					6

Down in the dregs, Edmund's running away with it and Dee Man has done enough to lift himself off the bottom of the league... well done!

Position	Team	Trophy Cabinet	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Total
1	Edmund	4x②	6	6	9			21
2	Peasy23		8	6	3			17
3	The_Kincardine		5	6	6			17
4	Cardinal Richelieu		4	7	5			16
5	G_Man1985		4	5	7			16
6	BigBo10		5	4	5			14
7	Dee_62		5	2	7			14
8	Swarley		5	5	3			13
9	SlipperyP		4	5				9
10	Dee Man		2	2	5			9
11	Die Hard Doonhamer		2	4	2			8
12	Jacksgranda		4	2				6

[WhiteRoseKillie]

Nine This morning - some proper Jacks offset by the stock exchange acronym. More than happy, mind.

[deej]

There are three teams dining at the helm of the top table at the moment, including newly promoted Alang1993. Deej is MIA!

Had an exam yesterday and one tomorrow, I'll catch up before the end of the week I promise [emoji106]

Guess is in for the tie break

[Cardinal Richelieu]

Good luck with the exams Deej! Although you really need to get your priorities straight!

So, in the cup replay, I asked the question:

• In mathematics (and in particular, the methods of zeta function regularization and Ramanujan summation), the infinite series of natural numbers, 1+2+3+4 (all the way up to infinity) is given a finite value... or to put it another way.... adding every integer together between 1 and infinity returns what number? 

Well I think it's fair to say that both Deej and Leeds Saint enjoyed the question immensely. The correct answer is, of course, -1/12.

Here's a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯

And if you don't understand that (i.e. if you're human), here's a video which shows the proof! 

So the results!

Deej went with a 1googol, or 1 with a 100 zeros, or 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 

Leeds Saint plumped for 

1234567890987654321

So Leeds Saint was far closer and progresses to the next round! 

(A thousand sorries)....

[deej]

26 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said:

Good luck with the exams Deej! Although you really need to get your priorities straight!

So, in the cup replay, I asked the question:

• In mathematics (and in particular, the methods of zeta function regularization and Ramanujan summation), the infinite series of natural numbers, 1+2+3+4 (all the way up to infinity) is given a finite value... or to put it another way.... adding every integer together between 1 and infinity returns what number? 

Well I think it's fair to say that both Deej and Leeds Saint enjoyed the question immensely. The correct answer is, of course, -1/12.

Here's a Wikipedia article about it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%2B_2_%2B_3_%2B_4_%2B_⋯

And if you don't understand that (i.e. if you're human), here's a video which shows the proof! 

So the results!

Deej went with a 1googol, or 1 with a 100 zeros, or 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 

Leeds Saint plumped for 

1234567890987654321

So Leeds Saint was far closer and progresses to the next round! 

(A thousand sorries)....

I've not watched the video but how the f@ck can all the numbers added together = a negative number?? 

[welshbairn]

5 minutes ago, deej said:

I've not watched the video but how the f@ck can all the numbers added together = a negative number?? 

Don't watch the video, it makes even less sense when they try to explain it. My brain is sore.

[Jacksgranda]

6/10 , happy with that, only knew one (Arthur Lowe), half sure of Mexican flag, guessometer in overdrive after that.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

30 minutes ago, deej said:

I've not watched the video but how the f@ck can all the numbers added together = a negative number?? 

I understand it somewhwat. But basically it's a huge leap to go from "here's proof of something different", "and here's some proof of something else different".. bang them together and you get -1/12. 

Anyway, apologies again!

[deej]

Just now, Cardinal Richelieu said:

I understand it somewhwat. But basically it's a huge leap to go from "here's proof of something different", "and here's some proof of something else different".. bang them together and you get -1/12. 

Anyway, apologies again!

I'm not sure i'm ready to accept your apology tbh, this has devastated me

[Jacksgranda]

1 hour ago, deej said:

 

 

 

 

Had an exam yesterday and one tomorrow, I'll catch up before the end of the week I promise

Guess is in for the tie break

 

 

FFS get your priorities right, man...

I see His Eminence has already given you a scolding. As you were

Edited December 14, 2016 by Jacksgranda

[welshbairn]

6 minutes ago, Cardinal Richelieu said:

I understand it somewhwat. But basically it's a huge leap to go from "here's proof of something different", "and here's some proof of something else different".. bang them together and you get -1/12. 

Anyway, apologies again!

It builds up from a dodgy premise that if infinity could be either 1 or zero we'll split the difference and call it a half. This is from the perspective of someone who gave up on maths when calculus brought up "approaching infinity" and boggled my mind.

[Cardinal Richelieu]

I totally agree, just don't shoot the messenger  

[Leeds Saint]

I looked it up after submitting my guess yesterday. When you actually look at the equation that is generated from the sequence the graph of that equation has a bit of it between 0 & -1 that is negative. When you integrate that negative part you get -1/12. Vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv dodgy to say that the sum of all integers '=' -1/12. 

Apology accepted though.