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From: "Chris M. Thomasson" <chris.m.thomasson.1@gmail.com>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions?
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:46:33 -0700
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On 9/14/2024 9:35 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote:
> On 9/14/2024 7:23 PM, Moebius wrote:
>> Am 15.09.2024 um 02:18 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
>>> On 9/14/2024 5:07 PM, Moebius wrote:
>>>> Am 15.09.2024 um 01:54 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
>>>>> On 9/14/2024 10:30 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>>>> WM presented the following explanation :
>>>>>>> On 14.09.2024 01:05, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>>>>>> WM explained :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> No, that is your big mistake. In the interval [0, 1] there is a 
>>>>>>>>> point next to 0 and a point next to 1, and infinitely many are 
>>>>>>>>> beteen them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Define 'next [to]' in this context.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Two points are next to each other means that no point is between 
>>>>>>> them.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> So which point is next to zero. Is it rational, or is it 
>>>>>> irrational? In either case it is greater than zero and there is 
>>>>>> again more room for an even closer number.
>>>>
>>>> If r e IR, r > 0, then 0 < r/2 < r.
>>>>
>>>> Hence there is no real number > 0 "next to 0".
>>>>
>>>>> WM says .00001 is next to zero... Ahhh shit, what about .000001?
>>>
>>> .(0)1 is close to zero? ;^D
>>
>> Close, but no cigar.
>>
>> After all, 0.(0)01 is closer. :-P
> 
> Indeed! ;^D

..(0)1 says its the closest to zero.

..(0)01 says that little shit is all hype!

;^) Like a comic strip.