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Subject: Re: collective and individual removal
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2025 10:04:02 -0400
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WM explained on 4/28/2025 :
> We can remove collectively all terms from the harmonic series. Nothing 
> remains.
>
> If we restrict the removal to individually definable terms, then an infinity 
> remains.
>
> Is this remainder caused by the impossibility to define infinitely many terms 
> individually? No! It is sufficient to define one term, namely the last one 
> definable.

But there is no last one definable since they all are.

> This is an irrefutable proof of the existence of dark numbers.

For some values of irrefutable.