Flipping the order of an infinite series and assigning it a value?

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I was recently wondering if there was some method to "flip" the series and still assign it a value for divergent series. To illustrate what I mean:

$$ S(x,n) = a_0 + a_1 x + a_2 x^2 + \dots + a_n x^n $$

We would like to define the flipped sum series:

$$ F(S(x,n)) = a_n + a_{n-1} x^{1} + \dots + a_0 x^{n} $$

Hence, to do this we begin by: assigning $x \to x^{-1} $ and take $x^n$ common:

$$ S(x^{-1},n) = (a_n + a_{n-1} x^{1} + \dots + a_0 x^{n}) x^{-n} $$

Multiplying both sides with $x^n$:

$$ S(x^{-1},n) x^n = (a_n + a_{n-1} x^{1} + \dots + a_0 x^{n})$$

Taking limit $n \to \infty$:

$$ \lim_{n \to \infty}S(x^{-1},n) x^n = \lim_{n \to \infty}(a_n + a_{n-1} x^{1} + \dots + a_0 x^{n}) $$

Taking the second limit $x \to 1$:

$$\lim_{x \to 1 } \lim_{n \to \infty}S(x^{-1},n) x^n = \lim_{n \to \infty} (a_n + a_{n-1} + \dots + a_0 )$$

Questions

Is the above proof correct? Can this somehow be extended to zeta regularization?