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Old January 22nd, 2008, 11:24 PM
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Originally Posted by ThePerfectHacker View Post
A lot of people, for some reason, do this problem by summing the infinite geometric series.
To be honest, i thought about doing it that way, but i was unsure of how to go to work with it. How about showing that solution?

I was thinking the distance the bird travels will get smaller and smaller with time, and from there we could get the ratio. But that also seemed like a more tedious way to do it.
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