Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Python Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Sat, 7 Sep 2024 11:19:10 +0200 Organization: CCCP Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <0da78c91e9bc2e4dc5de13bd16e4037ceb8bdfd4@i2pn2.org> <5d8b4ac0-3060-40df-8534-3e04bb77c12d@att.net> <7e1e3f62-1fba-4484-8e34-6ff8f1e54625@att.net> <06ee7920-eff2-4687-be98-67a89b301c93@att.net> <38ypmjbnu3EfnKYR4tSIu-WavbA@jntp> <34e11216-439f-4b11-bdff-1a252ac98f8f@att.net> <27b3b5e088d82d4475c68a64f50a4bccac9c6f29@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 07 Sep 2024 11:19:10 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="da221695a87ea1879ed97ba0ecba480a"; logging-data="1353861"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18ME+aBTDWz+tN9Paj0FGHO" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:aAZ3uW82qsvRTvORA6dbPBEe1i8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2578 Le 06/09/2024 à 22:42, Crank Wolfgang Mückenheim, aka WM a écrit : > On 06.09.2024 15:42, Python wrote: >> Le 06/09/2024 à 14:29, Crank Wolfgang Mückenheim, aka WM a écrit : >>> On 06.09.2024 14:26, joes wrote: >>>> Am Fri, 06 Sep 2024 14:22:00 +0200 schrieb WM: >>> >>>>> Example: The function f(x) = [x] increases at every x ∈ ℕ by 1. >>>>> The function NUF(x) increases at every x = unit fraction 1/n by 1. It >>>>> does not increase at 0 because 0 is not a unit fraction. >>>> What exactly happens at those points? >>> >>> The simplest action possible in mathematics: f --> f + 1 >> >> What you wrote above is a function associating a function to a function. > > No it is a value changing to this value + 1. So it is another value. A value does not change. Meanwhile you are still unable to provide a sound algebraic definition of "increasing at a point" for a function.