The 9's continue forever, and at no point is there a digit that makes the number reach the status of 1 even though 1 is apparently (?) reached.
Oh for goodness sakes this is the third time you've asked exactly the same thing. The 9s do continue forever. There are two ways of writing a number, one with an infinite series of 9s and one with an infinite series of 0s.
No, not "correct". "Intelligent"? Yes. I agree with the philosophies of very few famous philosophers, but I would not call any of them "idiots". You remind me of that guy in The Princess Bride who said that Aristotle and Socrates were morons compared to him.
There are many people vastly more intelligent than me, but Zeno was probably not one of them. His paradox is supremely easy to solve.
The man is moving toward the tortoise as the tortoise is moving. The man is at point A, and the Tortoise is at point B. The man must get to point B before he gets to the tortoise, but when the man is at point B, the tortoise has moved ahead to point C. Then the man must get to point C before getting to the tortoise, but by then, the tortoise is at point D. This goes on infinitely, so how does the man ever reach the previous tortoise point AND the tortoise SIMULTANEOUSLY when the tortoise is constantly moving? Obviously he does, but that does not mean you can explain how it happens. How does that step ever happen? Tell me. Thanks.
Because a it's a converging geometric series.
There are an infinite series of steps, so you can assign no one step the status of the 'last' step.
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