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mamberg

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  1. I argued this one with my Physics teacher...told him his statement of the problem was wrong....in the real world, the 'other side of the coliseum' is an arbitrary limit on the distance travelled...he was having none of it..and basically said the example illustrates the point he was trying to get across about calculus...he tried to pull the same {censored} about the tortoise never being able to catch the hare...pfft.



    I agree with you - what if the coliseum were only 1/2 as big?
    Then the first assumption that you first have to cross the first half, would put you all the way across!!

    I realize I'm arguing both sides of MY argument............

  2. This .999.... Thing dates all the way back to plato (or was it socrates?). Anyway - he said that to first cross the coliseum you have to cross the first half. To finish from the you again have to cross the first half of what is left. And so on and so on.

    How can you ever get to the other side?

    Please use terms plato would understand in your answer.

  3. Originally posted by superpoo





    word.


    bongs > pipes > blunts > joints

     

    I would have to say :

     

    bongs > joints > pipes > blunts

     

    the purer the better..........

     

    joints have paper

    pipes have build up

    blunts have crap

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