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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: The non-existence of "dark numbers"
Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2025 20:27:44 +0100
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On 16.03.2025 20:17, Jim Burns wrote:
> On 3/16/2025 2:40 PM, WM wrote:

>> Finite means a natural number.
> 
> Circular.

Of course. Every definition is circular in that it states what has been 
known already in other words.
> 
> The _emptiest_ set with 1 and if n then n+1
> does not hold dark numbers,

The question here is the index of the first disappearance of Bob.

Regards, WM