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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
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Chris M. Thomasson was thinking very hard :
> On 9/27/2024 11:57 AM, WM wrote:
>> On 25.09.2024 19:28, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 9/24/24 3:30 PM, WM wrote:
>> 
>>>> The largest number that you can choose depends on your facilities. 
>>>> Consider the largest number available on your pocket calculator.
>> 
>>> Mathematics isn't based on what WE can do, but on what the numbers 
>>> themselves can do,
>> 
>> They cannot do anything. They simply are created in potential infinity or 
>> are there in actual infinity.
>
> lol. Do you agree that actual infinity is infinity?
>
> ;^D

When it is convenient for him to do so, yes.

Summing all of the numbers between 50 and 150 means doing so one at a 
time and in order to him. This means everything is only potentially 
infinite to him as infinity is an ongoing yet finite process.

Actual completed infinity, to him, means both a first element and a 
last element must be present in the set.