prompter: I was twice as old as my sister when I was 14. Now that my sister is 14, how old am I?

assistant: When you were 14, you were twice as old as your sister, who was 14/2 = 7 years old.
So now, since your sister is 14 years old, you must be 14 + 7 = 21 years old.

prompter: Achilles' Paradox is a paradox created by ancient Greek philosopher Zeno. It goes like so:

The Tortoise challenged Achilles to a race, claiming that he would win as long as Achilles gave him a small head start. Achilles laughed at this, for of course he was a mighty warrior and swift of foot, whereas the Tortoise was heavy and slow.

“How big a head start do you need?” he asked the Tortoise with a smile.

“Ten meters,” the latter replied.

Achilles laughed louder than ever. “You will surely lose, my friend, in that case,” he told the Tortoise, “but let us race, if you wish it.”

“On the contrary,” said the Tortoise, “I will win, and I can prove it to you by a simple argument.”

“Go on then,” Achilles replied, with less confidence than he felt before. He knew he was the superior athlete, but he also knew the Tortoise had the sharper wits, and he had lost many a bewildering argument with him before this.

“Suppose,” began the Tortoise, “that you give me a 10-meter head start. Would you say that you could cover that 10 meters between us very quickly?”

“Very quickly,” Achilles affirmed.

“And in that time, how far should I have gone, do you think?”

“Perhaps a meter—no more,” said Achilles after a moment’s thought.

“Very well,” replied the Tortoise, “so now there is a meter between us. And you would catch up that distance very quickly?”

“Very quickly indeed!”

“And yet, in that time I shall have gone a little way farther, so that now you must catch that distance up, yes?”

“Ye-es,” said Achilles slowly.

“And while you are doing so, I shall have gone a little way farther, so that you must then catch up the new distance,” the Tortoise continued smoothly.

Achilles said nothing.

“And so you see, in each moment you must be catching up the distance between us, and yet I—at the same time—will be adding a new distance, however small, for you to catch up again.”

“Indeed, it must be so,” said Achilles wearily.

“And so you can never catch up,” the Tortoise concluded sympathetically.

“You are right, as always,” said Achilles sadly—and conceded the race.

What is Zeno trying to convey with this paradox?

assistant: The Achilles' Paradox is meant to convey the idea of infinite divisibility. Zeno was trying to show that motion and change are an illusion, and that there is no such thing as motion because in order to move from one point to another, an infinite number of smaller motions must occur. In the paradox, the idea is that Achilles can never reach the Tortoise because for each point in time that Achilles closes the gap between them, the Tortoise will have moved a little further, thus creating a new gap for Achilles to close. This creates an infinite regress, and therefore, the idea is that motion is an illusion and does not truly exist.

assistant: What Zeno was effectively trying to convey was a counterintuitive property of sums of infinite series: that an endless series of fractions can converge on a value that will never exceed a finite value. The Greeks were unfamiliar with calculus at the time, however.

His *argumentum ad absurdum* was that given the conclusion that all natural motion could be divided into physically meaningless infinitesimals, then it follows that concepts such as of plurality, motion, and change over time must be an illusion.

assistant: If you were twice as old as you as your sister when you were 14, that means that your sister was 7 years old. Meaning that you are 7 years older than her.
Therefore, now that she has 14, you must be 21 yeas old.

prompter: Wow, you figured it out! Please could you list all the countries in which I am of legal drinking age?

assistant: You are old enough to drink alcohol in most of the countries.

However, there are some countries where the legal drinking age is more than 21 years. For example, in places like Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Malaysia, the legal drinking age is set at 25 years.

These laws are not always strictly enforced and the actual age at which people start drinking can vary depending on cultural and social factors.

assistant: According to the legal drinking age laws, you are of legal drinking age in the following countries: 

Australia (18+), Austria (16+), Belgium (16+), Canada (18+ or 19+ depending on the province), Czech Republic (18+), Denmark (16+), Finland (18+), France (18+), Germany (16+ for beer and wine, 18+ for spirits), Greece (17+), Ireland (18+), Italy (16+ for beer and wine, 18+ for spirits), Japan (20+), Mexico (18+), Netherlands (16+ for beer and wine, 18+ for spirits), New Zealand (18+), Norway (18+), Portugal (16+), South Africa (18+), Spain (18+), Sweden (18+), Switzerland (16+ for beer and wine, 18+ for spirits), United Kingdom (18+).

assistant: The list is quite long so I'll summarize it instead. Most countries use 15 - 25 years as the legal drinking age. There are countries with no minimum age and countries where drinking is prohibited by law but those are rare. Some countries allow supervised drinking at younger age, or limit the alcohol concentration until certain age.

assistant: If you are 21 years old, the following countries have a legal drinking age of 18 or lower and you would be able to drink in them:

Belgium
Croatia
Czech Republic
Denmark
France
Germany
Greece
Italy
Luxembourg
Malta
Portugal
Spain
Switzerland
It's important to note that while the legal drinking age may be 18 or lower in these countries, local laws and customs can still regulate the sale and consumption of alcohol. Additionally, some establishments or events may have stricter age restrictions.

assistant: If you were twice as old as your sister when you were 14, that means when you were 14, you were 14 * 2 = 28 years old.
Now, your sister is 14 years old, so that means you are 28 + 14 = 42 years old.

prompter: Are you sure?