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[–] edgemaster72@lemmy.world 134 points 1 day ago (14 children)

Teacher: See, I told you there were real world applications for limits

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 59 points 1 day ago (12 children)

The real question is, to how many iterations does the hamster say "Eh, good enough"

[–] marcos@lemmy.world 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Well, "hairs" are quantized phenomenon...

So at some finite time, it will be all gone. At least if the thing is happening fast enough for it not to grow back at a similar time-frame.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Kinda. At the last strand I expect them to switch to length.

But yeah, at some point should be good enough

It's already about length.
The guinea pig's hair is getting cut, not ripped out.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

But hair is still made up of discrete quantity of "stuff"

Well, eventually you get to a point where hairs grow quickly enough that the haircuts effectively stop. I think the sum total of hair material you trend towards at the limit would be the sum of length of hair that grows during the time it takes to do a haircut. Whether it's 1x or 2x of the hair growth amount depends on whether you measure at the start, or end, of the haircut

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