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Subject: Re: Replacement of Cardinality --- infinitesimal number system
Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 20:22:53 -0400
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olcott presented the following explanation :
> On 7/30/2024 5:49 PM, Moebius wrote:
>> Am 30.07.2024 um 20:37 schrieb Jim Burns:
>>> On 7/30/2024 1:30 PM, WM wrote:
>> 
>>>> [...] between [0, 1] and (0, 1].
>> 
>> Could you please explain to me the meaning of the phrase "between [0, 1] 
>> and (0, 1]"?
>
> One can construe them as line segments that differ in length
> by a single geometric point on the number line.

An accumulation point. How big is it? How big must it be to affect 
length?