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rot wrote

Like a parabola that approaches 0 but is never = 0

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this_one wrote (edited )

0 squared is 0, so not quite. It's more like figuring out an asymptote. If you have the function y=1/x, you can't directly solve it for x = 0, but if you graph it, it's pretty easy to see that, depending which side of the y-axis you start on, the answer 'should' be either infinity or negative infinity.

The example in Zeno's Paradox isn't actually asymptotic, but you can solve it in the same kind of way

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