Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:59:57 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <2c8b9225d2abecd97de55f51d1ad6f08ec5a9b5c@i2pn2.org> References: <4a810760-86a1-44bb-a191-28f70e0b361b@att.net> <23311c1a-1487-4ee4-a822-cd965bd024a0@att.net> <71758f338eb239b7419418f49dfd8177c59d778b@i2pn2.org> <9510dd5dbc6edac4b3f35491638b7f27b25e6c43@i2pn2.org> <09f402dd7ae9238423a75667c8cf2bba9552d728@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2024 11:59:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="754810"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="nS1KMHaUuWOnF/ukOJzx6Ssd8y16q9UPs1GZ+I3D0CM"; User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 3302 Lines: 30 Am Sat, 30 Nov 2024 20:10:49 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 30.11.2024 18:45, joes wrote: >> Am Sat, 30 Nov 2024 18:20:51 +0100 schrieb WM: > >>>> For an intersection, the "smallest" set matters, which there isn't in >>>> this infinite sequence, only a "biggest". >>> If all sets are infinite, then there is no smaller set than an >>> infinite set. >> True. All endsegments are infinite. But they form a chain of inclusion, >> and there is no smallest set, because that chain is infinite. > There is an infinite sequence of endsegments E(1), E(2), E(3), ... and > an infinite sequence of their intersections E(1), E(1)∩E(2), > E(1)∩E(2)∩E(3), ... . > Both are identical - from the first endsegment on until every existing > endsegment. How surprising. >>>>> The intersection of the "finite initial segment" of endsegments is >>>>> ∩{E(1), E(2), ..., E(k)} = E(k) >>>>> is a function which remains infinite for all infinite endsegments. >>>>> If all endsegments remain infinite forever, then this function >>>>> remains infinite forever. >>>> It does for all finite k. >>> Of course. Only for finite k the endsegments are infinite. >> All natural k are finite. > Then all endsegments are infinite like their intersections. ....for every natural (which are finite), but not for the limit. -- Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math: It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.