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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
Date: Fri, 27 Sep 2024 18:08:32 -0400
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WM presented the following explanation :
> On 25.09.2024 18:53, Moebius wrote:
>>>>> On 9/24/24 3:43 PM, WM wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>> I think that [the] mathematics of fractions is correct.
>>>>>> It contains ∀n ∈ ℕ: 1/n - 1/(n+1) > 0 from which follows that never
>>>>>> two different5 fractions sit upon each other. From NUF(0) = 0 the
>>>>>> [existence of the] smallest unit fraction follows immediately
>> 
>> Proof?
>
> Between two unit fractions there is always a finite gap.

How big?