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To: YouPosting2Me

Take half, then half of half, repeat... eventually nothing.


Ah, no. IIRC, it’s called Asymptotic. That is,
it will approach, but never reach, zero. Half
of something is always something.


18 posted on 03/09/2016 8:42:40 AM PST by sparklite2 ( "The white man is the Jew of Liberal Fascism." -Jonah Goldberg)
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To: sparklite2

Ah, no. IIRC, it’s called Asymptotic. That is,
it will approach, but never reach, zero. Half
of something is always something.

depends on the something...and some point it ceases to be the original something it becomes something else

half car is not a car ....its two piles of junk

combining two things together can make it more than the original two halves .....and dividing something in half can make it less then two half of the original

if you can divide something infinitely and it still remains the original item...then really it was just a lot individual items in a group and never one contiguous item being divided to begin with

it’s King Solomon dividing the baby


21 posted on 03/09/2016 9:00:43 AM PST by tophat9000 (King G(OP)eorge III has no idea why the Americans are in rebellion... teach him whygrade switches)
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To: sparklite2

Ah, no. IIRC, it’s called Asymptotic. That is,
it will approach, but never reach, zero. Half
of something is always something.

So two males an engineer and a scientist are placed at opposite sides of a room with a beautiful woman in the middle the middle. They are told they can only approach her taking steps half as big as the last each time.

The scientist hangs head when he realizes that he will never reach and leaves the room disappointed. The engineer immediately eagerly approaches her recognizing that eventually he will be close enough that it won’t make any difference.


22 posted on 03/09/2016 9:01:26 AM PST by Boiler Plate ("Why be difficult, when with just a little more work, you can be impossible" Mom)
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