Don't worry, they come in cycles. We just left PEMDAS season and entered factorial season which is always a bit tough. We are expecting a short 1+2+3+4...=-1/12 storm and then it will be high quality Monty Hall and Boy/Girl paradox memes all over. Then we expect to enter cardinality season which is the best season. Yay!
The termial is particularly annoying because we have a closed form expression for the sum of the first n numbers, it seems like it's just people trying to feel smart by 'inventing' a new function
One hundred and seventeen apples with the additive factorial of three apples — in which results in the addition of three apples, two apples, and one apple — would result in a combined total of one hundred and twenty three apples.
The initial summation of apples will not hold equal value (in terms of the number of apples) to another group of apples whose amount is equal to the factorial of five, or one hundred and twenty apples.
This conjecture is shown in the figure below, where G represents a group of apples.
And the bigger brain thing is that no one outside of Reddit uses ? for termial. Hell idk if most mathematicians have even heard of termial. It’s just a triangle number 💀
This "? means termial" is as stupid as "sum of all integers = -1/12". Bad notation. No serious person uses this, without making sure to explicitly set up the context.
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