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Old 10-06-2009, 01:59 PM
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Originally Posted by gekkogecko
Zeno's paradox: the idea that a trotoise could beat Achilles in a footrace of X length, despite being demonstrably slower than Achilles, if only Achilles gave the tortois a head start. See, by the time Achilles had caught up to the tortoise's start position, the tortoise would have gone a little further: and by the time Achilles caught up to the second reference position, a little further still; and so on. By this method, it would seem that Achilles could never in fact, catch up with the tortoise.

In DickBro's case, in order to finish the treatments, he would have to finish half teh treatments. And in order to finish the remining half, then at least half of those: and so on. He therefore seemingly cannot finish the treatments at all.

It is of course, a mathematical fallacy, but I'll leave the rest to y'all to puzzle out.


Thanks for the explanation gekko..... I think.... will ponder it more later.

Any way.... Glad to hear it's going so well for you DB! Hope to hear more positive reports from you! Sending more prayers and well wishes your way. (((((((DB)))))))
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