Recent content by Drexas

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    Graduate Minimizing Area Bound by Parabola and Normal Chord: Putnam 1951 A6

    Try writing out all the possible sums (using two numbers from the set A) that add up to 104. What do you notice about the number of combinations?
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    Graduate Is Motion an Illusion? The Paradox of Infinite Divisibility in Space

    Another way that I look at this is...a finite time doesn't necessarily mean that the time can't be divided into an infinite number of different small times as well...after all, if the distance can, why can't the time?