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On 7/17/2024 2:08 PM, WM wrote:
> Le 17/07/2024 à 21:50, "Chris M. Thomasson" a écrit :
>> On 7/17/2024 10:01 AM, joes wrote:
>>> The distances between unit
>>> fractions get infinitely small.
>>
>> Right!
> 
> It remains finite in every case.

Do you think you can count forever, and right before you die you write 
down the number? Ahh, that is the smallest unit fraction for sure... 
Then you are in the afterlife counting again? lol. Anyway, there is no 
smallest unit fraction just like there is no largest natural number.

Smallest and largest in your mind seems to mean something akin to "has 
this number been computed, seen by a single person, anywhere in the 
universe as a whole, ect...?" All others are simply, dark. ;^) There is 
no dark number that is the smallest unit fraction... Got it?

Is that better, WM?