Thanks- In any case, the fly is dead-so is Zeno (and the lawyers of his
time)..
Don
On 04/04/2014 3:19 PM, Roger Hui wrote:
A quick check indicates that "terminate" can be used as an adjective.
Therefore, perhaps a better pun is to say "... it is indeterminate as well
as terminate for the fly", with the last "a" pronounced as a short a.
On Fri, Apr 4, 2014 at 2:43 PM, Don Kelly <[email protected]> wrote:
Initially I would say that it was going perpendicularly to the track but
as it is also in the process of reversing direction at this instant- it is
indeterminate
as well terminal for the fly
Don Kelly
On 03/04/2014 2:53 PM, Jose Mario Quintana wrote:
Bonus question: Alright, the fly was flying at the constant speed of 100
mph the whole time; in which direction was it heading at exact the time
when it was crushed? See below if you give up...
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In all directions perpendicular to the line in which it was flying before
the crash?
Alright, alright, let us change the question to make it less messy, for
example: the trains are running in still in opposite directions but in
parallel tracks next to each other, the fly is flying in between the
tracks
in the same pattern as before ... (and with all the other necessary
modifications). In which direction was the fly heading at exact the time
when the two trains crossed each other?
On Tue, Apr 1, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Roger Hui <[email protected]>
wrote:
There is a somewhat related anecdote. Two trains are 100 miles apart on
a
straight track, facing each other and travel at 25 miles per hour toward
the other. At the same time, a fly flies at 100 miles an hour from one
train to the other and, when it reaches the other train, turns around
instantaneously and flies toward the other train, and so on. When the
trains crash, what is the total distance the fly flew?
There is an easy way and a harder way to compute the answer. Someone
posed
the question to John von Neumann. After a moment, he answered, 200
miles.
Correct. Now, Johnny, how did you figure it out?
I summed the series.
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