To read this riddle in a modern narrative form click here. In the end, the tortoise convinced Achilles that he could not win the race because although he would be getting closer and closer, he would still always be covering smaller and smaller fractions of the total distance between the two. Let's say he covered half of the distance in 1 second (5 feet) and then in the next he covered half of the new distance, the remaining 5 feet plus the Tortoise's new distance.

Therefore, Achilles would always be covering a fraction of the distance between the two. Here's a triple pangram, where every letter appears at least three times in the grid. Before the race started, the tortoise told Achilles that the reason Achilles would lose is that even though Achilles would be catching up, the tortoise would always be moving ahead. The tortoise challenged Achilles to a race and Achilles, full of typical hubris, accepted and even gave the Tortoise a 10 foot head start. Solving brain teasers boosts brain power, keeps your memory strong, and entertains everyone to no end. His riddle involving Achilles, the character from Homer's Iliad and a tortoise went something like: Life Begins at 40 is a very commonly used phrase which means that a persons life becomes better at the age of 40. The word ‘LIFE’ after 40, when read together gets the correct phrase ‘Life Begins at 40’. Quick summary of riddle: Zeno of Elea (490-425 BC) is known for creating many paradoxes which were debated by mathematicians for centuries. In the above hint: 1, 2, 3 38, 39, 40 represents the numbers from 1 to 40.

Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise

1 2 3....38 brain teaser