Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Moebius Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary, effectively) Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:24:56 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: <4bf8a77e-4b2a-471f-9075-0b063098153f@att.net> <31180d7e-1c2b-4e2b-b8d6-e3e62f05da43@att.net> <45a632ed-26cc-4730-a8dd-1e504d6df549@att.net> <15f183ae29abb8c09c0915ee3c8355634636da31@i2pn2.org> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 03:24:57 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="d91c91ef3cde83250ec103b047bf9b9c"; logging-data="678438"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX192jPgNc/4H/K0sxCNgnpi0" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:tpFj0jOcyAYIdRC2TVHr5bMX91I= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: de-DE Bytes: 2912 Am 29.12.2024 um 03:13 schrieb Moebius: > Am 29.12.2024 um 03:07 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: >> On 12/28/2024 5:58 PM, Moebius wrote: >>> Am 29.12.2024 um 01:48 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: >>> >>>> Say, 1875520200019832... >>>> >>>> Each digit is random. This [represents] a number and it's within the >>>> infinite set of unsigned integers. >>> >>> Nope. Such a "number" is not an integer. >> >> It's an unsigned integer at every step? > > Sure. > > For each and every n e IN the string > >       d_n d_(n-1) ... d_0 > > where d_i e {"0", "1", ..., "9"} for all i e {0, ..., n} represents an > unsigned integer. Actually, d_n d_(n-1) ... d_0 represents (denotes) the unsigned integer SUM_(k=0..n) [d_k] * 10^k , where ["0"] = 0, ["1"] = 1, ..., ["9"] = 9. .. .. ..