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1 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

2 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

3 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

4 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

5 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

6 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

7 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

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9 WHAT IS A PARADOX ?

10 ZENO OF ELEA Circa 490 BC-Circa 430 BC Eleatic school of Parmenides
Inventor of dialectic

11 ACHILLE AND THE TORTOISE
HOW MANY POINTS THERE ARE IN A SEGMENT ? HOW BIG IS A POINT? WHAT IS THE SUM OF ,1 + 0,01 + 0, , B WILL ACHILLE PASS THE TORTOISE? A THE TORTOISE START 100 M IN FRONT OF ACHILLE ACHILLE IS TEN TIME FASTER AS THE TORTOISE (if the tortoise run 10 m Achille will run 100 m) WHEN ACHILLE HAVE RUN 100 M WHERE IS THE TORTOISE ? NO CHANCE

12 ZAPPER AND THE SOFT PART OF THE BREAD
1-2 1-4 1-8 1 __16 THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ZAPPER AND THE CRUMB IS 1 M WHAT IS THE SUM OF 1/2 +1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 +1/

13 ZAPPER AND THE SOFT PART OF THE BREAD
1-3 1-9 1 __27 1-2 THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ZAPPER AND THE CRUMB IS 1 M WHAT IS THE SUM OF 1/3 +1/9 + 1/27 + 1/

14 ZAPPER AND THE SOFT PART OF THE BREAD
2-3 2-9 2 __27 THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ZAPPER AND THE CRUMB IS 1 M WHAT IS THE SUM OF 2/3 +2/9 + 2/27+ 2/ CAN WE ANSWER THE PREVIOUS QUESTION?

15 ZAPPER AND THE SOFT PART OF THE BREAD
3-4 3 __16 3 __64 THE DISTANCE BETWEEN ZAPPER AND THE CRUMB IS 1 M WHAT IS THE SUM OF 3/4 +3/16 + 3/

16 SUMMARY

17 WILL ACHILLE REACH THE TORTOISE?
ACHILLE'S SPEED: 14 M/S WHAT IS THE SUM OF ,1 + 0,01 + 0, , ?.. WHEN WILL ACHILLE PASS THE TORTOISE?

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