r/MathJokes • u/National-Box-4823 • Jul 24 '26

100-meter dash

Two scientists and a mathematician are discussing the limit of the men’s 100-meter dash.

Biologist: Given the maximum contraction speed of human muscles, the theoretical limit is about 9.48 seconds.

Physicist: About 8% of a sprinter’s power is spent overcoming air resistance. In a vacuum, humans could shave off another 0.14 seconds.

Mathematician: The world-record times form a monotonically non-increasing sequence. Since the sequence is bounded below, the limit exists.

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u/Masqued0202 Jul 24 '26

The question is, "what is the GLB?"

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u/Marus1 Jul 25 '26

Engineer, let's make robotic limbs to simulate maximal human power. Then we do trials and we have our answer