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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? (infinitary)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 15:49:27 -0400
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Chris M. Thomasson used his keyboard to write :
> On 10/31/2024 9:02 AM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> WM explained :
>>> On 31.10.2024 12:00, FromTheRafters wrote:
>>>
>>>> Failure to recognize that discontinuity is mathematical noted.
>>>
>>> False. NUF(x) can only increase at unit fractions. They cause no larger 
>>> discontinuity than 1.
>> 
>> Wrong, your function, if swept as you seem to require, jumps from zero to 
>> countable infinity and stays there. Why do you call 1 a discontinuity?
>
> Trying to start counting unit fractions from the "other end" is moronic to 
> me. The first unit fraction is 1/1, so WM says, well, lets count from the 
> last unit fraction up to one. LOL! That right there is moronic.

It makes me wonder what he will come up with next.