Frogger Math [modified]
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Frogger is an infinate number of jumps from the wall, because, given enough decimal places, any positive finate number divided by 2 will always produce a value greater that zero.
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Absolutely. It's the age-old scenario: A gorgeous woman of limited attire is placed dead centre of a room. In one corner is the worlds best mathematician, in the other the worlds best physisist. A man announces the rules, "You will take turns approaching the woman. For each turn you get to move half the distance between you and the woman.". The mathematician promptly leaves, stating "with those rules I'll never get there!". The physisist stayes. When asked why he stays after hearing the mathematicians argument, he states "I'll sure as hell get close enough to make an approximate experiment!". //L
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I never saw a shoe fly. I saw a house fly, I saw a horse fly, but I just gone seen about ev'ry ting when I see some footwear fly!
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Frogger sits twenty feet from a wall. He has just eaten two (slow roasted) flies. ;P Now he sees another fly at the base of the wall! On his first jump, he has the energy to jump half the distance to the wall. (ten feet) :doh: All subsequent jumping power is also cut in half. :(( Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall? (This is a DISTANCE question, not a "eat the fly" question)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:33 AM
If his mouth extends over his feet, he'll get there eventually. If his mouth is over or behind his feet, he'll never get there. The same goes with his tongue. Also, since the fly is three dimensional, the forgger will reach it eventually. If it's just a shadow of a fly, no amount of jumping will help.
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Dalek Dave wrote:
but I just gone seen about ev'ry ting when I see some footwear fly!
You mean the wife has never heaved a shoe at you? Not once? C'mon, we won't tell. :-D
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Frogger sits twenty feet from a wall. He has just eaten two (slow roasted) flies. ;P Now he sees another fly at the base of the wall! On his first jump, he has the energy to jump half the distance to the wall. (ten feet) :doh: All subsequent jumping power is also cut in half. :(( Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall? (This is a DISTANCE question, not a "eat the fly" question)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:33 AM
Richard Blythe wrote:
Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall?
He'll never get there.
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Right on my man! It's amazing how many people don't get it. This was a question that I dug out of an old college math book. (Your hired!) :)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Or they just realized that an infinite series or harmonic series question is Calculus 101 and is borderline pedestrian and no fun to bother with. However, considering the question involved frogs you have to consider that a Frog has a minimum non-zero jumping distance or are we in a perfect, frictionless vacuum with a frog who occupies a point in space and not a volume?
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I never saw a shoe fly. I saw a house fly, I saw a horse fly, but I just gone seen about ev'ry ting when I see some footwear fly!
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave
Dumbo!
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Frogger sits twenty feet from a wall. He has just eaten two (slow roasted) flies. ;P Now he sees another fly at the base of the wall! On his first jump, he has the energy to jump half the distance to the wall. (ten feet) :doh: All subsequent jumping power is also cut in half. :(( Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall? (This is a DISTANCE question, not a "eat the fly" question)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:33 AM
Richard Blythe wrote:
Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall?
2 jumps. After the first jump, an exception is thrown, the frogger reboots, and he's back to full energy. Marc
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Richard Blythe wrote:
Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall?
2 jumps. After the first jump, an exception is thrown, the frogger reboots, and he's back to full energy. Marc
Marc Clifton wrote:
an exception is thrown
Oh yes, I use that exception all the time: FroggerEnergyException
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
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Allways remmber to spel your wordds write. :-D
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Potayto potahto. ;)
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Right on my man! It's amazing how many people don't get it. This was a question that I dug out of an old college math book. (Your hired!) :)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Richard Blythe wrote:
Your hired
Hey spelling cop! It's "you're hired". ;) hehehe Don't go writing up a grammar checker, okay? hehe
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Richard Blythe wrote:
Your hired
Hey spelling cop! It's "you're hired". ;) hehehe Don't go writing up a grammar checker, okay? hehe
I'm hit! :laugh:
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
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Frogger is an infinate number of jumps from the wall, because, given enough decimal places, any positive finate number divided by 2 will always produce a value greater that zero.
Steve Jowett ------------------------- Real Programmers don't need comments -- the code is obvious.
all he has to do is get close and then lean over a bit. or, get a bit closer and let one of the electrons in one of the cells in his skin bump into one of the electrons in the silica in the wall. you can't get infinitely-close-but-not-touching in the real world.
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Well thats a long tongue :laugh:
Even the fly would stick around for one that long :laugh: especially if it was a female :-O
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Right on my man! It's amazing how many people don't get it. This was a question that I dug out of an old college math book. (Your hired!) :)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
Richard Blythe wrote:
I dug out of an old college math book.
old... no foolin. like 490 BC[^] old.
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modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 1:10 PM
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Richard Blythe wrote:
Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall?
He'll never get there.
"One man's wage rise is another man's price increase." - Harold Wilson
"Fireproof doesn't mean the fire will never come. It means when the fire comes that you will be able to withstand it." - Michael Simmons
"Man who follows car will be exhausted." - Confucius
Correct. After his first jump, the fly is out of there and the Frogger is no longer interested in nearing the wall. :)
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Richard Blythe wrote:
I dug out of an old college math book.
old... no foolin. like 490 BC[^] old.
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.
that's where my link was supposed to go... yeah :-O
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Frogger sits twenty feet from a wall. He has just eaten two (slow roasted) flies. ;P Now he sees another fly at the base of the wall! On his first jump, he has the energy to jump half the distance to the wall. (ten feet) :doh: All subsequent jumping power is also cut in half. :(( Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall? (This is a DISTANCE question, not a "eat the fly" question)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:33 AM
Lucky frog that made only one jump and then it started walking...
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Frogger sits twenty feet from a wall. He has just eaten two (slow roasted) flies. ;P Now he sees another fly at the base of the wall! On his first jump, he has the energy to jump half the distance to the wall. (ten feet) :doh: All subsequent jumping power is also cut in half. :(( Question: How many jumps will it take for Frogger to reach the wall? (This is a DISTANCE question, not a "eat the fly" question)
The mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work unless it’s open.
modified on Tuesday, July 20, 2010 11:33 AM
3 hops. Because the first jump is 10 feet and the last two are 5. You didn't say it was halved each time. ;-) If you did though, you're talking about an age old math teaser. I believe it was an arrow travels half the remaining distance in a second. How long will it take to arrive at its target? Answer: Never. It will always be some faction of distance away from the target.