Our favorite Finnish electronic band,
Déclassé, offers a "you do the math" moment:
One phone call
thirteen numbers
still a million miles away.
We love the sentiment that working through a lot of digits to make an international call somehow ought to subtract from the distance. The paradox arises from considering space and "long distance minutes" as separate entities. Ultimately, as with Zeno's puzzles, solving the mathematical issues does not solve every issue the paradox raises.