What is the sum of all the real numbers?
(Assume that we start at zero and go left and right both ways in an even distribution of numbers)
Hint: A number line could help!
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If we use a number line, we can see that the sum of all the positive numbers on the right are cancelled out by the sum of all the negative numbers on the left.
Thus, the sum of all real numbers is 0 .