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- From: wsadjw@rw7.urc.tue.nl (Jan Willem Nienhuys)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Zeno
- Message-ID: <5887@tuegate.tue.nl>
- Date: 8 Oct 92 16:17:12 GMT
- References: <1992Oct8.000340.1@opie.bgsu.edu>
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- Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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- In article <1992Oct8.000340.1@opie.bgsu.edu> bc205cs@opie.bgsu.edu writes:
- >
- >Now here is my question: The rule of the game is that you can only step half
- >of the remaining distance on each step. Well, if you are standing at Point B,
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- No. There is no rule that says that Achilles must do a "step" whenever
- he has covered a distance computed by Zeno. Of course IF you make such rule,
- you run into all kinds of paradoxes, precisely because that doesn't
- resemble the way "running races with tortoises" work. JWN
-