Re: An aimless question
Nyperold, on host 205.216.76.188
Friday, April 7, 2000, at 20:10:22
An aimless question posted by Shai'tan on Friday, April 7, 2000, at 19:32:04:
> > I am trying to figure something out, and wondered if you guys might have some ideas. Here is the situation: > > You are at point A. You want to reach point B. > Every time you move towards point B, you can only move half as far as the before. Would you ever reach point B? > I am thinking that EVENTUALLY you'll get there. By the way, no loopholes, guys..you can't reach B from A in one move. I don't know why I come up with stuff like this, maybe my brain wants excercise. Does a problem like this seem familiar to anyone else? I really think I've seen it somewhere....
Go 2/3rds of the way the first time, and half that the second.
Nyperold
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