Re: DAMN, THAT'S COOL! (Help a fellow geek)

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From: Eric Lucas
Date: Sat, 01 Feb 1997 00:00

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William R. Penrose <wpenrose@interaccess.com> wrote in article
<wpenrose.366.00153836@interaccess.com>...
> In article <5cqqbc$d6b@ccshst05.cs.uoguelph.ca> ntagg@uoguelph.ca
(Nathaniel Tagg) writes:
> >        Sure it would.  'Infinitely thin paint' can cover an infinite 
> >surface area.  Whenever you run out, just scrape what you've painted so 
> >it's half as thin, thus doubling your supply.
> 
> No.  Then you run into zeno's paradox, because you have to keep on
scraping 
> and painting forever.  Like owning a house.

So who said it had to be painted in finite time?

	Eric Lucas

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From: "Eric Lucas" <lucas@superlink.net>
Subject: Re: DAMN, THAT'S COOL! (Help a fellow geek)
Date: 1997/02/01
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