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on Mar 05, 2003 at 14:00 UTC ( [id://240576]=note: print w/replies, xml ) | Need Help?? |
I learned about the philosopher Zeno of Elea from Douglas Hofstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach. He was famous for coming up with several paradoxes. Here's a neat one: "In a race in which the tortoise has a head start, the swifter-running Achilles can never overtake the tortoise. Before he comes up to the point at which the tortoise started, the tortoise will have got a little way, and so on ad infinitum. -- Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy" He had a related paradox which stated that motion was inherently impossible. I like using this one when my wife wants me to empty the trash or something else which requires movement. --Zeno - Barcelona Perl Mongers http://barcelona.pm.org http://www.javamonks.org
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