Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2024 19:22:40 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: <0e67005f-120e-4b3b-a4d2-ec4bbc1c5662@att.net> <03b90d6c-fff1-411d-9dec-1c5cc7058480@tha.de> <380a63a4ba5e4206504c27b06c9f2a4b6bf3c02d@i2pn2.org> <8671079a0207b0f016ab1455868167011f3e65be@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2024 19:22:40 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fa4d81affe87dc195ff2c4aafd71ec8e"; logging-data="2290478"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19DzWz0TTXO/vfCDYCV0p83ApXrjHn164c=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:oyr4GWO0WmNTLStkZK1NGz61tEY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2511 On 06.11.2024 12:46, Richard Damon wrote: > On 11/5/24 7:34 AM, WM wrote: >> On 05.11.2024 13:03, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 11/5/24 3:45 AM, WM wrote: >> >>>> I describe that a point between two finite intervals has two finite >>>> intervals around it. Even this simple conclusion must be denied by >>>> the believers in matheology. >> >>> If you mean that between to finite length intervals, which include >>> there endpoints, and a point that is between those two intervals, >>> then YES there exist two other intervals between the point and those >>> two intervals. >> >> These other intervals also have irrational endpoints. Every point >> outside of an interval is next to some endpoint which is irrational. > > Or rational endpoints. No, the rationals are centres of their intervals. > > There is no "next to" on the dense line Every positive point is nearer to zero than to any negative point. Of -x and 0 the latter is next to any positive x. Regards, WM