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Since today is H-day for the second round, I thought about Harvest Orange, and realized that I had never responded to John's comment when I posted my Case Harvest Orange knives in the first round. His comment is one of my favorites of all time!! Of course, the sum on the shirt is NOT divergent, so I'm NOT (physically) immortal , but conceptually, John nailed the implication of the formula on the shirt.Divergent sum... You're immortal...
Unfortunately, after differentiation, evaluation, and simplification, the sum comes out to be simply 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + ... + 1/2^n + ..., and looking at a ruler marked in halves, quarters, eighths, sixteenths, etc makes it obvious that the sum adds up to 1, and my age is 49 + 1 – (current year - 2002) = 49 + 1 – (-17) = 67, a finite age.
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