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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: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 20:34:43 +0200
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On 04.10.2024 17:10, joes wrote:
> Am Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:23:13 +0200 schrieb WM:
>> On 04.10.2024 00:55, Richard Damon wrote:
>>> On 10/3/24 2:34 PM, WM wrote:
>>>> On 03.10.2024 01:03, Richard Damon wrote:
>>
>>>>> But that also means that no point are "next to" each other.
>>>> Therefore NUF can increase at most by 1 at every real point.
>>> Why?
>> This is the precondition: The unit fractions are all existing! If so,
>> then they are different fixed points on the positive real line above
>> zero. Hence one is the first after zero.
> What kind of fucked up condition is that? It doesn’t even make sense
> for a UF to not exist.

Learn what potential infinity is.

Regards, WM