• booly@sh.itjust.works
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    2 months ago

    I don’t see why the distance between them isn’t growing at a constant speed.

    At any given time t seconds after separation, the boy is 5t north, and the girl is 1t east. The distance between them is defined by the square root of ((5t)^2 + (t)^2 ), or about 5.099t.

    In other words, the distance between them is simply a function defined as 5.099t, whose first derivative with respect to time is just 5.099.