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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions?
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2024 22:01:43 +0200
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On 20.09.2024 21:51, Jim Burns wrote:
 > On 9/20/2024 2:24 PM, WM wrote:
 >> On 19.09.2024 20:31, Jim Burns wrote:
 >>> On 9/19/2024 6:38 AM, WM wrote:
 >
 >>>> Either there is a point next to zero
 >>>> or there is no point next to zero,
 >>>
 >>> Consider ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 >>>
 >>> Q is between A and Z
 >>> A and Z are not next to each other.
 >>>
 >>> Nothing is between P and Q
 >>> P and Q are next to each other.
 >>>
 >>> ⎛ There is a gap between P and Q
 >>
 >> No.
 >
 > There is no letter between P and Q
 > in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
 >
 > There is an absence of letters between P and Q
 > in ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

No, there is nothing. An absence requires a space which could be 
occupied by the absent.

Regards, WM