Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail
From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: how
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 02:02:19 -0400
Organization: Peripheral Visions
Lines: 43
Message-ID: <uvnolf$1el7t$1@dont-email.me>
References: <qHqKnNhkFFpow5Tl3Eiz12-8JEI@jntp> <44eaef1b-35be-4b50-900b-52b010ba9aa0@att.net> <_g9BcdiKQ1epFrcvM4FSF2rZkN8@jntp> <f4890eb5-e8df-4d98-a1ba-98c40f516df5@att.net> <HowGC2OIbH3GwJcRQBgR51F0vzM@jntp> <uvdvua$vnmp$1@i2pn2.org> <7FlE2ap2lYCEKbW6F4ekYb8aZ3s@jntp> <uvhaem$13m07$2@i2pn2.org> <Ru_AyGwfW3klmHhb6sjmxQ_4eqw@jntp> <uvka8l$17msm$1@i2pn2.org> <LUy8jnMOftjltS3mdpX3WN5LLNg@jntp> <uvn1hl$1arkt$1@i2pn2.org> <uvnnq2$1efc8$1@dont-email.me> <uvno13$1eeap$1@dont-email.me>
Reply-To: erratic.howard@gmail.com
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
Injection-Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 08:02:24 +0200 (CEST)
Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="e6a7dc71a36f18424fa8fc4a317f9966";
	logging-data="1529085"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org";	posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+SOvhopSKI7E6idp+LNX1VNeiU3IWtM6o="
Cancel-Lock: sha1:BmCmFXMDBDQoeurw7CH4i59LRWo=
X-ICQ: 1701145376
X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb
Bytes: 2615

Chris M. Thomasson used his keyboard to write :
> On 4/16/2024 10:47 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> Richard Damon formulated the question :
>>> On 4/16/24 10:59 AM, WM wrote:
>>>> Le 16/04/2024 à 00:38, Richard Damon a écrit :
>>>>
>>>>> Name a Natural Number that can not be doubled!!!
>>>>>
>>>> All nameable numbers belong to a potentially infinite collection, a very 
>>>> small initial segment of ℕ.
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Thus, doubling ALL the Natural Numbers still gives you results that 
>>>>>>> are all Natural Numbers.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Impossible, since all are doubled.
>>>>>
>>>>> POSSIBLE!!!!
>>>>>
>>>>> That is the "miracle" of INFINITY.
>>>>
>>>> No, it is the incongruence of thinking.
>>>> For potential infinity it is true. But for actual infinity it is wrong.
>>>>
>>>> Regards, WM
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Why?
>>>
>>> What number in the set of Natual Numbers doesn't have another Natural 
>>> Number that is twice it?
>> 
>> Zero?
>
> Is zero a natural number?

Sometimes. :)

Is it too late to apply for poetic license?

> Yikes! Well, how to denote 42 - 42 = 0 ;^)

Subtraction is only a partial function in the positive and non-negative 
integers.