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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader?
Date: Fri, 23 May 2025 13:00:47 -0700
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On 5/23/2025 1:34 AM, WM wrote:
> On 23.05.2025 01:46, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>> On 5/19/2025 12:22 PM, WM wrote:
>>> On 19.05.2025 01:05, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
>>>> On 5/18/2025 8:30 AM, WM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Your process will not break. One after one the dark numbers will 
>>>>> become visible. Nevertheless almost all natural numbers will remain 
>>>>> dark. The stock is incredibly large. There are numbers like ω/2 or 
>>>>> ω/10 which you will never touch. For every defined n ∈ ℕ: ω/n is 
>>>>> larger than you will every reach, how long ever you will increase 
>>>>> your visible numbers. Compared to ω the defined numbers are 
>>>>> infinitesimal.
>>>>>
>>>> So, you say wrt a little kid in the womb, well, perhaps all numbers 
>>>> are dark?
>>>
>>> Yes.
>>
>> Even if its mother says one, two, three, oh crap I have to pee? So, 
>> perhaps, just perhaps, the entity building in her womb can hear things 
>> via sound vibrations, and or other "mystery" things? Strange!
> 
> For the start use simpler cases like these: The pocket calculator is 
> limited to decimal representations below 10^100, the universe is limited 
> to more or less sophisticated formulas requiring less than 10^80 bit.
> 
> In every system almost all natural numbers are and remain dark - if an 
> actual infinity of them exists.

Sounds like a conflation between real life and math? There is no largest 
natural number, right?