Saturday, January 17, 2009

Today's Laugh

What happens if you get scared half-to-death twice?
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  1. Dan @ Necessary Roughness1/17/2009 8:16 AM

    It's multiplicative, not additive? ;)

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  2. Cheryl1/17/2009 7:13 PM

    This reminds me of an old paradox. Say you have to drive to church. But before you can drive to church, you have to drive halfway there, right? But before you can get to that halfway point, you have to get the halfway point of the halfway point. And so on, and so on, and so on. So if you're forever just getting halfway to the next halfway point, how can you ever make it anywhere?

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  3. Susan1/17/2009 7:18 PM

    Didn't take calculus, did you, Cheryl? :-)

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  4. Unknown1/17/2009 7:42 PM

    yep-three-forths, I guess. :)

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  5. Cheryl1/17/2009 9:39 PM

    "Didn't take calculus, did you, Cheryl?"

    Uh, no. And your point is . . . ?

    Never mind. I think I prefer to continue in blissful mathematic ignorance.

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  6. Susan1/17/2009 11:43 PM

    Oh, it's just one of those things you do in calculus and other maths, where you keep adding (or otherwise manipulating) numbers that keep changing. I suggest continuing in blissful ignorance ... especially because I can't remember enough about it to explain!

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  7. Dan @ Necessary Roughness1/18/2009 6:19 PM

    Open up the calc book, or Wikipedia, to geometric series. :)

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