Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mikko Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 15:45:53 +0200 Organization: - Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <0e67005f-120e-4b3b-a4d2-ec4bbc1c5662@att.net> <03b90d6c-fff1-411d-9dec-1c5cc7058480@tha.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 14:45:54 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a86eeb15695684d31125944a4ec4c92d"; logging-data="1712536"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+Koo12fyc7IG/nNtYEcIX6" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:tqQZj49yI/iEd9jVdeCO7nrGB/8= Bytes: 2562 On 2024-11-11 11:33:52 +0000, WM said: > On 11.11.2024 12:15, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-11-10 10:54:02 +0000, WM said: >> > >>>>> >>>>> The measure of all intervals J(n) = [n - √2/10, n + √2/10] is smaller than 3. >>>> >>>> Maybe, maybe not, depending on what is all n. >>> >>> It is, as usual, all natural numbers. >> >> The measure of the interval J(n) is √2/5, which is roghly 0,28. > > Agreed, I said smaller than 3. > >> The measure of the set of all those intervals is infinite. > > The density or relative measure is √2/5. By shifting intervals this > density cannot grow. Therefore the intervals cannot cover the real > axis, let alone infinitely often. > >> Between the intervals J(n) and (Jn+1) there are infinitely many rational >> and irrational numbers but no hatural numbers. > Therefore infinitely many natural numbers must become centres of > intervals, if Cantor was right. But that is impossible. Where did Cantor say otherwise? -- Mikko