Sunday, April 11, 2010

infinite distant in finite time


Consider a machine which can travel 1 mile in 60 minutes, then 1 mile in 30 minutes then 1 mile in 15 minutes, then 1 mile in 7 1/2 minutes etc. The sum of 1 +1/2 +1/4+1/8...=2

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