I recently got a gig doing some consulting work for the National Museum of Mathematics. They asked me if I could be onsite at 9 a. m. the next morning. My response was "The distance between you and me can infinitely be divided by two. Therefore, it would be theoretically impossible for me to arrive there at 9 a. m."
Why come they did not hire me at the National Museum of Mathematics?
Why do you think telling them Zeno's Paradox will get you a job with them? Anyone who has taken high school math knows it. You need something more unique, like using Newton's method to calculate the value of Pi.
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sounds like it would have an irrational result. what I'm going for here is, you need to pay me to work for you, even though it's mathematically impossible for me to show up.
It's not impossible for you to show up, you just have to think outside Zeno's box and think about going all the way there, not halfway an infinite number of times.
so what you're saying is that as the distance decreases, the time needed to cover those distances also decreases and the time needed becomes infinitesimally small. damn it to hell.
I'm so sorry they didn't hire you, maybe keep trying again and again or apply somewhere similar and I pray you get the job again I'm really sorry they didn't hire you
