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From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions?
Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 18:54:59 -0400
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On 9/23/24 8:56 AM, WM wrote:
> On 23.09.2024 00:53, Richard Damon wrote:
> 
>> Count down from infinity please, what is the actual first number you 
>> use, (not w-1, that isn't a number).
>>
>> The problem is it doesn't exist, because the numbers don't have a 
>> bound on that end.
> 
> The problem is not non-existence. Proof: Chosse the greates existing 
> number m. Then double it to get 2m. Why didn't you choose 2m originally? 
> Obviously it exists.
> 
> Regards, WM
> 


Because you asked for something that doesn't exist.

There is no largest existing number m, so I guess that says your logic, 
that created the question, just doesn't exist.

Show me a 4 sided triangle.