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Anonymous Mon Sep 24 09:03:10 2018 No.11834447 [Reply] [Original]

>achilles and the tortoise

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 09:53:34 2018 No.11834603 >>11834447 it's not supposed to be a real life thing. its a way of communicating to people how concepts dont work out in real life

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 09:58:24 2018 No.11834617 >>11834447 swift footed achilles

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 10:00:55 2018 No.11834624 it's so fast

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 10:01:48 2018 No.11834627 >>11834447 Zeno's paradox doesn't work if you realize that each time step is reduced by half since the overall speed of Achilles is constant.

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 10:04:56 2018 No.11834635 File: 110 KB, 657x539, 1536067711373.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >calculus solves Zeno's paradox

>>	Anonymous Mon Sep 24 10:07:05 2018 No.11834643 >>11834635 How does it not? It's literally an infinite sum.