On January 25, 2019 at 10:56, highfigh said...
... but they could divide a small distance in half, visually. Then, they could cut it in half again and again. Pretty soon (relatively), someone was able to mark a piece of some stable material with those dimensions, write numbers and expand the system.
I wonder how long it took to dawn on them that if you keep dividing things in half it is never-ending.
You shoot an arrow at a tree. At some point it is half-way there. You can keep dividing the distance to the target by one-half forever. The arrow will never arrive at the tree. Wait, What??
