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TrueTears

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Re: Paradox!!!
« Reply #30 on: January 10, 2010, 05:26:01 pm »
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Quote from: brightsky on January 10, 2010, 05:24:41 pm
Oh woops.. then it's:

? :p
Close xD

You still need to calculate the total distance travelled and not just one part of the distance, so you need to sum up all the half distances and limit n to infinity :P

Which happens to be 2a. So he does reach the wall!
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Re: Paradox!!!
« Reply #31 on: January 10, 2010, 05:34:48 pm »
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Quote from: brightsky on January 10, 2010, 05:28:29 pm
Oh I see. Would this work:

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That's another way of thinking about. You thought the converse of my one heh

So you'd have



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Re: Paradox!!!
« Reply #32 on: January 10, 2010, 07:38:11 pm »
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But from intuition ofcourse he will reach the wall.

I see no intuition there  ;D what if the common ration was 1/3 instead :P
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