An ant is traveling on a 1meter long rope at 1cm/seconds but also the entire rope is being stretched by an extra........

if the rope is in a loop

answer Mar 20, 2017 by Kewal Panesar

Although it appears as if the ant will never reach the end of the rope, counterintuitively it is possible for the ant to reach the other side mathematically. But this will take more than the life of the universe to accomplish which is estimated at 4×10^17 seconds.
The ant will need (e (100/1) - 1 ) seconds ie., 2.688 × 10^43 seconds to reach the other side.

answer Mar 21, 2017 by Tejas Naik

Yes as once the ant moves the rope behind the ant also stretches and therefore will be accounted as well.

answer Jun 17, 2019 by Akriti

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