Jan 17, 2022
My short-argument resolution of this paradox would be that the stairs are not a valid approximation of the straight line. The straight line is just the sum of the "touching points" of the stairway with infinite steps.
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Written by Olaf Schlüter
IT security specialist, Physicist by education, believing in God as for the exceptional harmony of the laws of nature to create and support life.
