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The Intrepid Ant (Posted on 2002-10-03)

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?

See The Solution Submitted by Jim Lyon

Rating: 4.4375 (16 votes)

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Subject	Author	Date
Puzzle Thoughts	K Sengupta	2023-08-06 21:55:50
Ok, not it's not	rich harran	2004-03-24 06:27:28
Simple solution (and _this_ one is correct)	rich harran	2004-03-23 04:31:27
a question of logic, my perception	gavin	2003-03-31 02:47:39
re: Please, find the mistake!	TomM	2003-02-20 11:36:41
Please, find the mistake!	gary	2003-02-20 10:40:37
re: simple solution	Javed Iqbal	2003-02-17 04:54:24
hmmm, good question	Kenneth	2002-11-05 10:39:30
No Subject	Amanda	2002-10-09 11:48:55
re(5): The backward ant	Jim Lyon	2002-10-08 05:51:13
re(4): The backward ant	Cheradenine	2002-10-08 03:42:40
re(3): The backward ant	friedlinguini	2002-10-08 03:26:29
re(2): The backward ant	Cheradenine	2002-10-08 03:06:08
re(2): The backward ant	Jim Lyon	2002-10-07 11:16:27
re: The backward ant	Brad Hack	2002-10-07 06:57:39
re(3): The backward ant	TomM	2002-10-05 11:37:01
re(2): The backward ant	Aeternus	2002-10-04 18:42:19
re: The backward ant	Aeternus	2002-10-04 05:15:08
logarithmic?	Cheradenine	2002-10-04 01:33:10
The backward ant	TomM	2002-10-03 19:43:33
re: some math	TomM	2002-10-03 19:26:38
some math	James D Brown	2002-10-03 16:42:01
re(2): No Subject	TomM	2002-10-03 10:00:30
First Steps	TomM	2002-10-03 09:54:11
re: No Subject	levik	2002-10-03 08:48:06
No Subject	Cheradenine	2002-10-03 07:57:24

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