You have to reach the halfway point to the halfway point and so on an infinite number of times. How do we ever get anywhere ?
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I'm confuddled here. Are you saying A is half of B?
And if you had to reach a halfway point of a halfway point, it wouldn't be infinite, because there's technically only one halfway point to reach, that happens to be the halfway point of a halfway point. But you don't have to get to the full point, so I don't think it's infinite.
Maybe it would be easier to take a paper and make two dots A & B 10 inches apart. To go from A to B you first have to reach the middle or 5 inches, now before you can reach the 5 inch point you have to get to the 2.5 inch point. Before you can get to 2.5 inch you have to reach 1.25 inch. Before you can reach 1.25 inch you have to get to .625 inches and so on as many times you can keep dividing in half which is infinite.
What I'm saying is:
To go from one place(a) to another (b) you first have to reach the mid point (c) between the two. Before you can get to the mid point you have to reach the midpoint between (a) and (c) , which we will call (d). Before you can get to the midpoint between (c) and (d ) you have to reach that midpoint and so on. It never stops, so how do we ever get to (b)?