When Does Infinity Equal -2?

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Remember in school, when your math friend showed you how 1 = 2?
Now you can amuse them too, except it doesn’t involve any math errors like dividing by 0, or the old

If you are a math major point your condescending look elsewhere.

Here we start with S, an infinite sequence. And somehow we get -2.

The math experts told me in an unexcited manner: the explanation is here

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P-adic_number.

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