Hello Mark,
Saturday February 28 1998 10:31, Mark Bloss said to Matt Eggleston:
 MB>   Please note this infinite series, for example:
 MB>   1 + 1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + 1/32 + 1/64 + ...
 MB>   Add this forever.
 MB>   What do you get?
 MB>   You get very very close to 2, but you never quite get there.  But you
 MB>   get "close enough", yet you never get there anyway.  Not even after an
 MB>   infinite number of additions.  Please, try it and see.  It should
 MB> occupy  you for the next 10^1000 quadrillenion millenia of eons.  ;-)
Ah, Zeno's paradox about infinitesimals. :)  He used it to show that one 
should never be able to walk from point A to point B and therefore motion was 
impossible.  He left his peers confounded.  Zeno was cool.
... Gezundteit has a loose beginning.
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