near zero - Mander

A mathematician, a physicist and an engineer are led into a long room. At the other end stands a beautiful naked woman. “When I ring this bell,” she says" you may cross half the space between us. When I ring the bell again, you may again cross half the space between us." Both the mathematician and physicist groan and wander off. “Ah, it’s Zeno’s paradox, we can never actually reach her.” The engineer, waiting for the bell, says “I think I can get close enough.”
why is there a naked woman?
For the joke to work.
i still don’t see what the point is.
Were you neutered as a child?

no i just don’t fucking understand why the naked woman matters here.

Could be fucking anything, a pile of a billion dollars. Three turtles, or a goat, it’s the same joke.

It could be a research grant.
engineers love research grants, well known behaviorism of an engineer.
I have friends who are engineers and whose job it is to turn theoretical research into real-life projects to find research grants for their team.