Zeno's paradox

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It is the infinite that lies at the heart of Zeno’s paradox: Zeno had taken continuous motion and divided it into an infinite number of tiny steps.

From Literature

Yet Zeno’s paradox was so powerful that the Greeks tried over and over to explain away his infinities.

From Literature

Every minute, every second, the hands refute Zeno’s paradox: They move continuously, never pausing artificially on one number, passing through an infinite series of fractions of time — a visual demonstration of the fact that time is always in motion.

From New York Times

It sounds like biography writing as Zeno’s paradox — getting infinitesimally closer to the end without ever reaching it.

From New York Times

Tracing underground shorts can take hours, City Light crew chief Fiel Diaz explains: You dig up the middle of a shorted line, determine which side the short is on, dig at its midpoint … and so on and so on, until you find the short — an electrical Zeno’s paradox.

From Seattle Times