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From: olcott <polcott333@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 18:12:38 -0500
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On 5/18/2025 5:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote:
> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> writes:
> 
>> Are you aware of the fact that in
>>
>> {1}
>> {1, 2}
>> {1, 2, 3}
>> ...
>> {1, 2, 3, ..., n}
>> ...
>>
>> up to every n infinitely many natural numbers of the whole set
>>
>> {1, 2, 3, ...}
>>
>> are missing? Infinitely many of them will never be mentioned
>> individually. They are dark.
> 
> Presumably you are aware that for every n in ℕ, n will be mentioned in
> infinitely many such sets?  They are bathed in light.
> 
> Do they still let you teach this stuff?
> 

Clearly you do not understand that any
action that takes an infinite amount of
time will never be completed. There is
always some n in ℕ that no one ever
got around to mentioning.

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