An expansion on Timothy Chow's example of Grandi's series $1 - 1 + 1 - 1 \pm ... = \frac{1}{2}$. It is possible to interpret the left hand side as computing the Euler characteristic of infinite real projective space $\mathbb{R}P^{\infty}$, which is a $K(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}, 1)$ and therefore rightfully has orbifold Euler characteristic $\frac{1}{2}$! I think I learned this example from somewhere on Wikipedia.
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