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[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 8 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 9 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

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 + ...

[–] MrScottyTay@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Wouldnt 2x4 actually equate to 2 * 4 * x not 24 * x? So it would be 8x?

[–] rustydrd@sh.itjust.works 2 points 6 days ago

Regular multiplication? Sure. But this is Rustydrd multiplication, which assigns different values to products I don't like.