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(2): The backward ant by Cheradenine)
Jim's analysis looks pretty solid to me. Can you demonstrate the calculation being done on Excel? <troll>Especially given the reliability of Microsoft products?</troll>
re(3): The backward ant
