Note: the result stems largely from the fact that infinity defies our expectations. Infinity isn’t a number, it’s a concept. Things like addition and subtraction don’t work the same when you involve infinity (kind of how physics doesn’t work the same when you’re standing in the middle of a black hole). More information: it is also worth looking into Ramanujan summation and Grandi’s series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramanujan_summation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandi’s_series Another resource: http://www.bradyharanblog.com/blog/2015/1/11/this-blog-probably-wont-help