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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
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Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 20:46:02 +0200
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On 19.05.2025 01:12, olcott wrote:
> 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.

Correct. And simple.

Regards, WM
>