Teacher: See, I told you there were real world applications for limits
The real question is, to how many iterations does the hamster say “Eh, good enough”
It’s a guinea pig!
Yeah but it’s clearly a malicious hamster giving the haircut
Can I get that printed on a t-shirt?
Well, “hairs” are quantized phenomenon…
So at some finite time, it will be all gone. At least if the thing is happening fast enough for it not to grow back at a similar time-frame.
Zeno’s Barber
The sum of all haircuts is 2.
1, surely?
If you sum the hair removed from one lil guy you’ll get 1. If you sum the hair removed from all lil guys you’ll get the amount of lil guys.
But yeah, you’re right. I think they’re looking at the problem differently. We don’t care about how much hair it has at each step. It can’t gain hair from a hair cut.
Maybe it would make more sense if I said “Hairdos”?
it took me a while to understand that the guinea pig(?) in the window is meant to be the reflection of the one outside. Because the surface is roughly parallel with the viewer, the one outside is pointing to the left, so the flipped pig should also be pointing left.
“this is going to take forever”
beat me to it
Should have centered your axis around the global center instead of the local center.
“The haircut does not exist!”
Go six to eight times, then ask another barber to do the rest and a huge discount.
I volunteer to shave the guinea pigs
This is one of those times you are hoping someone put Nair in the conditioner. It’s rare to yearn for, but that little guy needs the help
When I was a kid I encountered this problem when I wondered what would happen if I half-empty a bottle of soda, re-fill it with water, and repeat. Will it eventually become just water or will there always be some soda left? It boggled my mind for a while, then I forgot about it until I reached university calculus haha
