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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 07:09:36 -0400
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Chris M. Thomasson brought next idea :
> On 9/9/2024 11:49 AM, WM wrote:
>> On 09.09.2024 17:27, Python wrote:
>>> Le 09/09/2024 à 17:15, Prof. Dr. Mückenheim, aka WM a écrit :
>>>> On 09.09.2024 16:32, Python wrote:
>>>>> Le 09/09/2024 à 12:19, Prof. Dr. Mückenheim, aka WM a écrit :
>> 
>>> 1/n is not in (0, x). Sure. So what? Nevertheless there are Aleph_0 unit
>>> fractions in (0, x). No need for 1/n to be there, there far enough other
>>> fractions.
>>>
>> If you cannot understand mathematics consider the simplest logic:
>> If a sequence of different real points exists on the positive real axis, 
>> then it has a beginning. Otherwise it could be a cloud but not a sequence.
>
> Oh wow. You need help! Or we do for even giving you the time of day. 
> YIKES!!!!!!!!!!

Actually, I think he is close to correct. The thing is, he wants the 
first term of the sequence to be last. The reals are not a sequence, 
but the unit fractions are and they start with 1/1 not at some imagined 
other end. You need a first and likely a next to start.