On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 10:33:12PM -0400, Michael Z Daryabeygi wrote:
> However, the poster above could be correct that someone should be paying
> him if a price drops by 2000-fold. We are not dealing with Zeno's
> paradox because of the order of operations and that "fold" can mean
> multiply or divide. The final operation is is to "drop" or subtraction.
> So it is not recursive and is either by one two-thousandth or 200,000
> percent.
Actually, if "fold" here means "divide in half" (which is how I interpret
it) 2000-fold would be 1/2 to the 2,000 power. Which is a very small price
indeed.
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