[ot] Tortoise fables (was: Re: [plug] dlink dsl-300)

[John Clayton]

>From: Cameron Patrick <cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au>
>Reply-To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>To: plug at plug.linux.org.au
>Subject: [ot] Tortoise fables (was: Re: [plug] dlink dsl-300)
>Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 15:07:20 +0800

>| Recommended reading: The Hare and the Tortoise
>| See also: proverbs, slow and steady
>| ;-)
>
>*grin*  I think I prefer Zeno's Tortoise and Achilles paradox.
>
>(For those who havne't heard of it:  Achilles and the Tortoise have a
>race; Achilles gives the Tortoise a short head-start 'cos he's so much
>slower than Achilles.  In the time it takes Achilles to reach the
>Tortoise's old position, the Tortoise is always slightly further on.  So
>no matter how much faster Achilles may be, he can never catch up to the
>Tortoise.)
>
>Cameron.
>
Good eating  on one of those, though Om for some reason does not like that.

And calculus does very bad things to that little paradox.

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