Subject: Re: [LPNY DISCUSS] Zeno's Paradox Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2003 21:02:41 -0400 To: From: Bob Armstrong

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 12:39:20= -0400, G Triest wrote:

>=A0Didja= know that although Zeno's paradox doesn't work as it intuitively= suggests, given distance and velocity, it does work that way= for velocity and acceleration . . .

You mean relativistically ? Because you're dealing with= fractions of C ?

On Tue, 26 Aug 2003 19:05:59 -0400, Gary Popkin= wrote:

>=A0Bonnie is essentially= correct. =A0Progress gets slower as you

>=A0get closer, in all manner= of things. =A0Clean water is another example. =A0It

>=A0costs such-and-such to= get out 98% of the crud, then ten times as much to

>=A0get out another= 1%.

Yes , that's like the relativistic situation . The= difference from Zeno

is that the "cost"= of each fraction left is not linear . The= functions

are truly asymptotic= .

( I should have restrained myself from initiating in= such

a pedantic quibble .= )

--=A0

=A0Bob Armstrong -- http://CoSy.com --= 212-285-1864

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