Do not read unless you no longer need your mind

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This is absolutely insane, it will blow your mind.

There is a race between a person and a turtle. The person is obviously a lot faster, so the turtle is given a 100m head start. The runner runs 10 times as fast as the turtle. When the race starts, the person sprints 100m, then he is at the position that the turtle was at the start. By the time he has ran this 100m, the turtle has ran 10m. He continues running and after 10m, he is at where the turtle was at the previous step, and by this time the turtle is 1m ahead. This distance between the runner and turtle continues to decrease by a factor of 10 every time the runner catches up to where the turtle was, and it continues infinitely. Does the runner ever pass the turtle? We know it does in real life, but how? If the runner does, he is completing an infinite number of actions in a finite time...?!?!?!?!

[Skipsy]

None of your logic here makes sense.

[_corn_]

None of your logic here makes sense.

Lol, it's a paradox that has been unsolved for over 2000 years. It does make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise

[Skipsy]

Lol, it's a paradox that has been unsolved for over 2000 years. It does make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise

Should've just copy pasted it, didn't understand the explanation you posted.

[_corn_]

Should've just copy pasted it, didn't understand the explanation you posted.

it's not much different

[[MPGH]Doc]

Lol, it's a paradox that has been unsolved for over 2000 years. It does make sense.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes#Achilles_and_the_tortoise

It's not a very good paradox. It's designed to create an impossible outcome by imposing an unreasonable rule on the pursuer.

[_corn_]

It's not a very good paradox. It's designed to create an impossible outcome by imposing an unreasonable rule on the pursuer.

What is the unreasonable rule?

[[MPGH]Doc]

What is the unreasonable rule?

That in a race the pursuer must get progressively slower rather than maintaining a constant velocity. That isn't a race, it's just a fallacy used to set up a theory.

[Embrace.]

Yeah your explanation makes no sense. But its a cool thing to think about ^_^

[_corn_]

Yeah your explanation makes no sense. But its a cool thing to think about ^_^

lol it does so

[Harpoon.]

Interesting post. Makes sense until the factors & stuff lol

[Rance-Sama]

[Margherita]

This makes no sense because it's impossible and anyone could probably solve this.

[_corn_]

This makes no sense because it's impossible and anyone could probably solve this.

Wow. The average IQ on this forum must be around 50.

You just said anyone could solve an impossible problem...

[Assistive]

tl;dr

Can I have a third grader version?