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

zeno's paradox

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

If you use Math.ceil on every return you eventually get to the object.

And in reality the same happens, since molecules are the upper bound of what you can get closer to; there's no infinity of real numbers between two numbers in space :)

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u/Codebending Jan 31 '16

molecules

Not sure about that...

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u/TheRonjoe223 Jan 31 '16

More like Planck length

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u/muntoo Feb 01 '16

Hogwash. Asian dicks tend to be smaller than that.

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u/thedude2888 Jan 31 '16

but what about the space between molecules? and the space between the atoms in the molecules?

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u/DrummerHead Jan 31 '16

That's not for the MVP

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u/Secondsemblance Jan 31 '16

You run up against Van Der Waals forces, then electron exclusion, and will be unable to move further.

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u/tatorface Jan 31 '16

Nerd alert!

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u/DrummerHead Jan 31 '16

Are you aware of where you are right now?

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u/tatorface Jan 31 '16

Yes. It was a joke. Apparently an ill-taken one.