• Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Plus, you get bonus horror from Xeno’s paradox. If you break 103, they now have 309 bones, so you only broke a third, requiring you to break more bones and so on and so forth.

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      1 day ago

      It’s late and I don’t want to do the math or remember how you could solve the paradox, so I’ll just ask it case someone’s head is less empty than mine right now. Does that number converge assuming we always break an integer amounts of bones? My belly is telling me it does converge because we went from 0% to ⅓ in the first step and we want to land at 50%.

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        1 day ago

        Break every bone once. There are now twice as many bones as you started out with, so you’re at 50%.

        Don’t do this at home.

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          1 day ago

          Hi, I slept and woke up now. Yeah, I can clearly see that now, too. Thanks for the answer.