| ??? 06/07/09 19:04 Modified: 06/07/09 19:06 Read: times |
#165913 - The story is... Responding to: ???'s previous message |
The problem was given to John Von neumann who after a couple of minutes gave the correct answer.
The guy who gave his the question said 'Oh you spotted the obvious answer and worked out how long before the trains crashed, so the fly flies for time*speed miles, most people try to sum the infinite sum' john Von neumann looked at him and said 'I did sum the infinite sum' Obviously if you try to solve it via calculus and time is continious then the fly bounces between the trains an infinite number of times before they crash, so you end up with a infinite mathematical series to sum. |
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