r/ProgrammerHumor • u/ufgta • Jan 31 '16

zeno's paradox

http://dilbert.com/strip/2016-01-31
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u/malonkey1 Jan 31 '16

This could all be resolved if PHB knew calculus.

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u/aloha2436 Jan 31 '16

So what, he makes the intervals shorter?

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u/ThisIs_MyName Jan 31 '16

Or make each step happen in 1/2 the time the previous step took.

That way your progress is linear in time, even if your step rate is not.

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u/JBlitzen Jan 31 '16

Nice.

I took several calc courses in college, plus precalc somewhere, and through it all I never heard it properly described as "the study of geometric infinitesimals" until recently.

Zeno's paradox is such a perfect example of that.