Tristram Shandy paradox (1759).
Named after a fictional character created by English author Lawrence Sterne (1713-1768).
Shandy finds that in two years of writing he has covered two days of his autobiography and doubts whether he will ever complete the work.
However, even at that poor rate he could finish the work provided that he had an infinite amount of time in which to do so.
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