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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary)
Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2025 09:31:53 -0500
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It happens that WM formulated :
> On 19.01.2025 16:10, joes wrote:
>> Am Sun, 19 Jan 2025 11:47:50 +0100 schrieb WM:
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>>> They contain only natnumbers which have ℵ₀ successors.
>> There are no naturals with a finite number of successors, otherwise
>> you could count backwards from the end.
>
> That is possible: ω-1, ω-2, ω-3, ...

Wrong, omega has no immediate predecessor.