Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up with some elegant suggestion to my question. Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers? I somewhere heard that it is Zero as positive and negative integers will just cancel each other out. However want to know is it correct? Thanks so much
On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Maithula Chandrashekhar wrote:> Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with > Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. > However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up > with some elegant suggestion to my question. > > Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers? I somewhere heard > that it is Zero as positive and negative integers will just cancel > each other out. However want to know is it correct?There are more appropriate places to pose such questions: http://math.stackexchange.com/ David Winsemius, MD West Hartford, CT
or even better: http://mathoverflow.net/ On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote:> > On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Maithula Chandrashekhar wrote: > >> Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with >> Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. >> However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up >> with some elegant suggestion to my question. >> >> Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers? I somewhere heard >> that it is Zero as positive and negative integers will just cancel >> each other out. However want to know is it correct? > > There are more appropriate places to pose such questions: > http://math.stackexchange.com/ > > > > David Winsemius, MD > West Hartford, CT > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >
Also, googling around one will find the question has been asked (and answered) already: http://ask.metafilter.com/25060/Whats-the-sum-of-all-integers Cheers, Tsjerk On Tue, Feb 15, 2011 at 1:33 AM, Kjetil Halvorsen <kjetilbrinchmannhalvorsen at gmail.com> wrote:> or even better: > > http://mathoverflow.net/ > > On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 8:02 PM, David Winsemius <dwinsemius at comcast.net> wrote: >> >> On Feb 13, 2011, at 4:47 PM, Maithula Chandrashekhar wrote: >> >>> Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with >>> Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. >>> However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up >>> with some elegant suggestion to my question. >>> >>> Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers? I somewhere heard >>> that it is Zero as positive and negative integers will just cancel >>> each other out. However want to know is it correct? >> >> There are more appropriate places to pose such questions: >> http://math.stackexchange.com/ >> >> >> >> David Winsemius, MD >> West Hartford, CT >> >> ______________________________________________ >> R-help at r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help >> PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html >> and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >> > > ______________________________________________ > R-help at r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. >-- Tsjerk A. Wassenaar, Ph.D. post-doctoral researcher Molecular Dynamics Group * Groningen Institute for Biomolecular Research and Biotechnology * Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials University of Groningen The Netherlands
On Sun, Feb 13, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Maithula Chandrashekhar <m.chandrashekhar1977 at gmail.com> wrote:> Dear all, I admit this is not anything to do R and even with > Statistics perhaps. Strictly speaking this is a math related question. > However I have some reasonable feeling that experts here would come up > with some elegant suggestion to my question. > > Here my question is: What is sum of all Integers?You're right -- this question doesn't belong here, but if there was ever a question that the following answer was appropriate for, surely this must be it. So: I'm pretty sure it's 42. -- Steve Lianoglou Graduate Student: Computational Systems Biology ?| Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center ?| Weill Medical College of Cornell University Contact Info: http://cbio.mskcc.org/~lianos/contact