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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions? (infinitary)
Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:12:56 +0200
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On 09.10.2024 19:40, joes wrote:
> Am Wed, 09 Oct 2024 17:39:36 +0200 schrieb WM:
>> But those endsegments which have lost only finitely many numbers
>> and yet contain infinitely many, have an infinite intersection.
> Not what we are discussing.

It is claimed that all endsegments are infinite, hence have lost only 
finitely many numbers as indices, but have an empty intersection.

> So, for an infinite number of infinite sets infinitely many numbers
> have been "lost", leaving nothing.

True. Therefore not all endsegments are infinity.

Regards, WM