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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
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Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 12:17:59 -0000 (UTC)
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Am Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:33:34 +0100 schrieb WM:
> On 01.11.2024 16:04, Jim Burns wrote:
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>> Here, you say: the smallest exists.
>> That does not pop the smallest into existence.
> I say: All exist. That implies the smallest.
If one exists. That does not mean that anything is "missing",
just that no element has the property "smallest".
I can't conjure a middle element of an even number of things,
even though all are there.

>> It contracts our discourse to lines which have a smallest.
> Yes. The other alternative would consist of variable sets.
Or infinite ones.

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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.