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If you add 0.5, then and half of that, then add half of that again, (and so on) will you ever get to 1?

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Answer:

only after you have done this an infinite amount of times, so, no not really.

Explanation:

This is a geometric series also used in Zeno's paradox: Achilles and the tortoise.

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