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This reminds me of zeno's paradox, even though you continue to buy google stock its a smaller and smaller fraction so even if you buy google to infinity you sti
by darepublic 8y ago
This reminds me of zeno's paradox, even though you continue to buy google stock its a smaller and smaller fraction so even if you buy google to infinity you still never own it
- nix0n 8y agoYou don't need 100% though, just 51%
- EGreg 8y agoZeno’s paradox only seems like one before you learn differential Calculus. That’s because dx is going to zero, true, but as dt goes to zero. We have figured out that this converges to an actual number, in a system that is totally consistent and makes sense. x0 + sum of all the dx converges to x1 just as t0 + the sum of all the dt converges to t1. And that’s the exact time when Achilles catches up to the tortoise. Zeno’s paradox ignores that dt is going to zero, and always acts like the sum of all the dt is infinity, thus “Achilles will never reach the tortoise” is wrong. Simple!