combinatorics - Rabbit and turtle - Mathematics Stack Exchange
2020年10月26日 · A rabbit is chasing a turtle (or tortoise, whatever you prefer!). Each of them makes one move at a time and they are only allowed to land on adjacent vertices and only on …
Proof of Floyd Cycle Chasing (Tortoise and Hare)
2017年4月27日 · If the hare is not on that node, note that on each subsequent step the distance the hare is ahead of the tortoise increases by one, which means that since they are on a loop …
Achilles and the tortoise paradox? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
Achilles needs to run the distance DO plus the distance the tortoise moved in the meantime. Thus, the time needed is t = (DO + DT}/VA The tortoise, in the same time covers t = DT / VT …
100 meters head start for the turtle, would the rabbit...
2015年6月10日 · A rabbit challenged a turtle to a racing match and the turtle accepted it. The rabbit knows its advantages so he let the turtle go with a 100 meters head start, the rabbit is …
What's the problem with this logic? - Mathematics Stack Exchange
The tortoise gets Achilles to agree that anyone who accepts A and B and "If A and B then Z" must also accept Z. But now the tortoise disagrees with Achilles' logic. He says he is entitled to …
Achilles and the tortoise problem - Mathematics Stack Exchange
2021年3月8日 · There is no reason that you have to use an infinite series. Achilles gains on the tortoise at a speed of $10-0.2 = 9.8 \frac {m}{s}$ and catches the tortoise in $\frac {100}{9.8} …
Logic - Hare and Tortoise Race. - Mathematics Stack Exchange
2015年11月11日 · Tortoise and Hare are racing. Tortoise moves one meter every minute. Hare moves $2n − 1$ meters on the ...
combinatorics - Compute the number of ways to reach a point …
2023年10月10日 · $\begingroup$ Thank you very much for the help. I agree that there are 5 ways for option 2. I think there are 20 ways for option 1 as we have 5 choices for where we put the …
Deriving the kinematic equation $v^2=v_{0}^2+2a(x-x_{0})$.
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Zeno's Achilles & Tortoise - Where exactly is the proof wrong?
2020年7月20日 · $\begingroup$ No, there's no more fundamental issue here. It's clear that if Achilles ever overtakes the tortoise he stays ahead forever, so if you could construct an …