Thread: Achilles and the Gods Puzzle
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Old 07-16-2010, 07:38 AM   #26
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Edit: Millennia doesn't quite describe it. After about 2,315 years of constant running Achilles would only be 35% done, and the track now stretches 488 Astronomical Units. I'm not even sure my computer could finish this race at over 2^24 times the speed of Achilles.
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I accidentally left this program running in the background. After running for 126,275.2 (tropical) years poor Achilles is still only 39.44% done with the race, and the track has stretched to 3,984,857,235,456.1km (26637.1 AU). These are just estimates, since the program was never meant to deal with such large numbers, and precision is surely suffering floating point errors with only 64bit floats.

Regardless, I think this really would be an excellent method of torture for Tartarus's damned.
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