Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions? (infinitary)
Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 22:48:52 -0400
Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org)
Message-ID: <3f1c0dd945e728b057008a12fa00683e0fe8e6e9@i2pn2.org>
References: <vb4rde$22fb4$2@solani.org> <ventec$255vi$2@dont-email.me>
 <venunr$2533b$4@dont-email.me> <29ce40e9-f18a-44d4-84d9-23e587cf9dea@att.net>
 <veor6u$2asus$1@dont-email.me> <2b6f9104-a927-49ee-9cf0-6ee3f82edc23@att.net>
 <verkkk$2r6kk$1@dont-email.me> <verlk6$4dv$1@news.muc.de>
 <vermdv$2s24h$1@dont-email.me> <verv6f$2oo0$1@news.muc.de>
 <e4d00f83-42df-4f14-a007-4a90f3b5d644@tha.de> <vf085m$1gf6$1@news.muc.de>
 <vf0cpf$3t4q1$1@dont-email.me> <vf0feo$2un7$1@news.muc.de>
 <vf0ovc$3v3cv$1@dont-email.me> <vf0qev$2fe9$1@news.muc.de>
 <47ada01f-e2a7-42e7-bb63-390a73412938@tha.de>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Injection-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 02:48:53 -0000 (UTC)
Injection-Info: i2pn2.org;
	logging-data="2821875"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org";
	posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg";
User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird
X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0
Content-Language: en-US
In-Reply-To: <47ada01f-e2a7-42e7-bb63-390a73412938@tha.de>
Bytes: 2482
Lines: 27

On 10/19/24 1:57 PM, WM wrote:
> On 19.10.2024 19:32, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de> wrote:
> 
>>> When multiplying all natural numbers by 2, then the number of numbers
>>> remains the same but the density is reduced and therefore the interval
>>> is doubled.
>>
>> That's not mathematics.
> 
> It is mathematics.
> 
>> It's merely your intuition, derived from finite
>> sets and misapplied to infinite sets.
> 
> It is the basic mathematics of natural numbers: 2n > n.
> If you believe in a different version of mathematics, try to find people 
> who are interested in that version. I am not.
> 
>> In mathematics, there is no meaningful distinction between what you think
>> of as two different forms of infinity.
> 
> You have not the faintest idea of infinity.
> 
> Regards, WM

No., it seems that YOU do not have the faintest idea of infinity, since 
you think an infinte set has a last element.