A frog sits on a lillypad in the precise middle of a circular pond with a radius of 6 metres (19 feet). He jumps straight towards the edge of the pond a distance of 3 metres (9 ft, 6 ins) but this tires him and every subsequent jump is precisely half the distance of the jump before (ie, 1.5 metres (4 ft 9 ins), etc).
Would this be a good frog for a frog-jumping contest?
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No it wouldn't be..it would never reach the finish line!! (and if it did- it would take a dang awful lot of jumps!) Personally I would want a frog who tired out less easily.
Unless the frog jumping contest only measured the distance of the first jump...THEN i would use that frog.
(But I had always thought frog jumping contests took place on land..not in circular ponds? )
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