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Chapter 177: This would have caused a mathematical crisis in the 17th century! (Please subscribe)

"Master Leibniz, isn't this just a simple arithmetic problem?" Tic asked, perplexed.

Not to mention wizards proficient in advanced mathematics, even an apprentice could solve it.

Alva and the others were extremely disappointed, was this the problem that baffled the entire community of advanced mathematics? Just this? Just this?

"Do you really think it's simple?" Leibniz looked at the people present and said regretfully, "The problem is not about when he will catch up, but why he can catch up."

"Zeno told me that at his speed, it would take ten seconds to reach the starting point of the tortoise!

But by the time he got there, the tortoise had already moved one meter. Although the distance between them had closed considerably, there was still a one-meter gap. So, he needed another tenth of a second to reach the tortoise's new position. Yet by that moment, the tortoise had moved another distance, so he must spend one-thousandth of a second to catch up to the tortoise's position…"

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