Timeline for Time or distance subway surfers
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| Mar 27, 2017 at 12:11 | comment | added | Chris | @Mithrandir: I have no idea about the actual correct answer (though any of these games I've played have been continuous). The continuous or discrete thing was just an afterthought based on the phrasing "consistently increase over a period of time". My comments come from being a mathematician and therefore thinking far more than is healthy about functions. ;-) | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | Mithical | Fairly sure it's continuous, @Chris. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 11:54 | comment | added | Chris | The question may also be asking about whether the increases are discrete (ie a step up at certain intervals, whether they are time or distance) or whether it is continuous (ie the speed is constantly increasing by a small amount). | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 11:53 | comment | added | Chris | Or to put it another way if your speed is twice as much as your initial speed after one minute would it be three times as much after the second minutes, four times as much after the third minute, etc. Or else if your speed is twice as much as initial after 1000 metres would it be three times after 2000m, four times after 3000m, etc. The two are obviously not the same. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 11:52 | comment | added | Chris | Technically "The more time the more distance" is true if and only if speed is greater than zero. What you are thinking of is that time and distance are not linearly related so an equal increase in time does not always mean the same increase in distance. I believe the question is assuming that speed is either a linear function of time or a linear function of distance and asking which one it is. | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 10:03 | comment | added | Oak | That's not true. if d(istance) = t(ime)*s(peed), then yes, the more time the more distance, only and only if speed is constant. Which may not be the case at all times | |
| Mar 27, 2017 at 8:15 | history | answered | Mithical | CC BY-SA 3.0 |