Spooky Math Story: The Harmonic Series Torture
My captors put a ½-pound weight on my back, then ⅓ pound, then ¼ pound… 'I'll tell you anything! Just stop tending towards infinity!' 'It's too much!' 'Or it will be, eventually!'
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Cartoon by Ben Orlin, Math with Bad Drawings. https://cartoons.mathwithbaddrawings.com/2017-10-25-the-world-s-spookiest-math-stories--spooky-math-story-the-harmonic-series-torture/ (CC BY-NC 4.0)Transcript
My captors put a ½-pound weight on my back, then ⅓ pound, then ¼ pound… 'I'll tell you anything! Just stop tending towards infinity!' 'It's too much!' 'Or it will be, eventually!'