Re: Hamilton's Rule is Xeno's Paradox ( was Re: Underestimating 'r')

John Edser wrote:
In Xeno's Paradox the algebraic constant "time" has
> been deleted as an oversimplification. This reduces the mathematics to
> become entirely, just a relative proposition within which the hare can never
> actually catch up to the tortoise.

Of course it doesn't, you idiot. Zeno thought he had found a paradox
because he did not know how to compute the limit of a convergent sum.
Neither do you, of course. However, he has an excuse - he lived 2,500
years ago. What's yours?

(to compound the problem, you are confusing one of Aesop's fables - The
Hare and The Tortoise - with Aristotle's version of Zeno's paradox (or
one of them) - Achilles and the Tortoise)


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