AG. The Eagle

How to do infinitely many things in a few minutes!

Amazingly, there are as many rational numbers as counting numbers!

We also discuss Zeno’s paradoxes and a famous summation problem.

3 Comments »

  1. Shawn said,

    January 21, 2012 at 7:45 pm

    Could the eagle problem be solved using integrals?

  2. strauss said,

    January 24, 2012 at 5:56 pm

    Mebbe, but there are some much simpler ways to go about things! The answer we discuss is probably the simplest…

  3. Shawn said,

    January 24, 2012 at 9:15 pm

    I only ask the question because I brought up a similar question with my Calculus 1 with Analytic class involving an insect that flies between two approaching trains until they collide.
    [spoiler] Wolfram MathWorld has an article that discusses the distance = rate * time solution as well as the infinite summation for the version of the problem they have. I think I remember the definition of area being given as an infinite limit of summation, which could also be expressed with an integral.
    http://mathworld.wolfram.com/TwoTrainsPuzzle.html [/spoiler]

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