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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 08:10:21 -0500
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WM formulated the question :
> On 21.11.2024 00:04, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> WM explained on 11/20/2024 :
>
>>> "not a single one of this epitome has been forgotten" means not a single 
>>> one remaining, let alone more than one.
>> 
>> No it doesn't, it means the system used to list them is inherently unable 
>> to miss any.
>
> None is missed. That is no successors remain missed.

It says nothing about successors at all, just that there is a 
systematic method for listing them without missing any.