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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? (infinitary)
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 13:08:22 -0700
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On 10/31/2024 12:49 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
> 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.

Not sure. WM says I decree this is the last unit fraction. Somebody else 
says here is one that smaller and closer to zero... WM says, well that 
was dark, now its in the light, or some shit like that? Humm...