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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions? (infinitary)
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2024 13:17:58 -0700
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On 10/17/2024 11:46 AM, WM wrote:
> On 17.10.2024 02:18, Richard Damon wrote:
>> On 10/16/24 1:18 PM, WM wrote:
> 
>>> Of course it is a general rule. Doubling creates larger numbers.
> 
>> But those numbers are still in the set, and all the members of the set 
>> were doubled, so none of the doubled values got us to a value that 
>> wasn't doubled.
> 
> Therefore not all doubles are natural.

Huh? WTF! Any natural number that is doubled equals a natural number 
that was always there to begin with. Damn it! ;^o