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What about 0.5?

As a decimal number, yes, it does follow 0. But in the sequence given by natural whole numbers, 1 is next to 0. Just as 2 is next to 1, 3 is next to 2, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
You can see where I'm going with this.

Your question wholly depends on which facet of mathematics you're following, as has been pointed out several times on this thread.
 
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As a decimal number, yes, it does follow 0. But in the sequence given by natural whole numbers, 1 is next to 0. Just as 2 is next to 1, 3 is next to 2, then 4, 5, 6, 7, 8...
You can see where I'm going with this.

Your question wholly depends on which facet of mathematics you're following, as has been pointed out several times on this thread.
Yes, true. It's like saying in a set of ABCs containing A, C, Z. C is next to A. It all depends on the type of ABC set being used.
Which is irrelevant.
It is to what I am saying.
 
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Zeno has never claimed the mathematical series does not converge. He only claimed that time is infinitely divisible.
You have lost the plot.
I have used "modern" mathematics to describe Zeno's paradox as a converging series involving limits.

The series

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can be expressed as the limit

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As can be seen from the graph S rapidly converges to a value approaching 1 even after only summing 10 terms.

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