Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:18:11 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 36 Message-ID: References: <357a8740434fb6f1b847130ac3afbd33c850fc37@i2pn2.org> <787067e5de3c455cb57389315b6821e96bcf86af@i2pn2.org> <1b6f89e7c35e4c9674af5a480e4bab6cb72e0915@i2pn2.org> <733ce219e9d2422859035e5094a7b3e92eea9c47@i2pn2.org> <93150cff37c76c7c9f6c66d8ffd13dc8bc5c477f@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 26 Dec 2024 18:18:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="26a2c5c5f7b2556246a56be7e13f3cc0"; logging-data="3237817"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19b2iSpTUIK9/CrlEDQK9NNAGM+qVYTQqY=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:BySEGcoUp5tvhZUGU/SJmOGB0GM= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3175 On 26.12.2024 13:55, Richard Damon wrote: > On 12/26/24 6:36 AM, WM wrote: >> On 24.12.2024 15:06, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 12/24/24 5:45 AM, WM wrote: >>>> On 23.12.2024 15:32, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>> On 12/23/24 4:31 AM, WM wrote: >>>> >>>>>>>> No, I do as Cantor did. >>>>>> >>>>>>> No, you do what you THINK Cantor did, >>>>>> >>>>>> Show an n that I do not use with all intervals [1, n]. >>>> >>>>> The LAST one, which you say must exist to use your logic. >>>> >>>> I do what Cantor did. There is no last one. You cannot show an n >>>> that I do not use. There is none. Therefore all your arguing breaks >>>> down. >>>> >>> No, you do NOT do what Cantor did, >> >> What n do I not use? >> > The LAST one, that completes the set. Cantor misses it. Therefore I do not use it either. > The fact that after any finite number of removals, there are still > elements does not mean that when you remove *ALL* the elements there > will still be some left.# This fact shows that "all" cannot be removed individually. They can only be removed collectively. Proof of dark numbers. Regards, WM