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_refugee_  ·  4026 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Last Crumb, a poem on infinite series

I am a big fan of Zeno's Paradoxes and have written a poem about (one of) them as well! I enjoyed this a lot. It reminds me of the old joke:

An infinite number of mathematicians walk into a bar. The bartender says, "Well, what're you having?" The first mathematician orders one beer. The second mathematician says "I'll have half of what he's having." And a third says "I'll have half of that!"

The bartender looks at the line of mathematicians, pours two beers, and says "Sort it out for yourselves."