A rubber band is 1 meter long. An ant starts at one end, crawling at 1 millimeter per second. At the end of each second, the rubber band is instantaneously stretched by an additional meter. (So, at the end of the nth second, the rubber band becomes n+1 meters long.)

Does the ant ever reach the far end of the band? If so, when?

(In reply to re: The backward ant by Brad Hack)

despite jim's reply, the computational approach is not
completely inviable. all you need is excel..

Posted by Cheradenine on 2002-10-08 03:06:08