Actually it's a trick question because a frog cannot be infinitely small. The teacher explained it by having us fold any sized piece of paper exactly in half as many times as we could. The theoretical limit was 8 folds but I could never exceed 7 folds. I think some tv show tested this with a giant piece of paper and they got 8 or 9 folds but it was a real learning opportunity and it taught a lot of young kids the difference between theory and reality.
Paul Sent from my iPhone On Sep 3, 2017, at 4:19 AM, Jerry Wolper <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ps: first real program was to determine if a frog was sitting 8 feet away > from a pond and >> he could jump half the distance to the pond with each jump, how many > jumps would it >> take to reach the water? Any guesses? > > The program's still running, right? > > -Jerry > > > --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- > multipart/alternative > text/plain (text body -- kept) > text/html > --- > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://mail.leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
