Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Does the number of nines increase? Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 13:42:28 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <72984017b5af15267bdcd281564efdd028083003@i2pn2.org> <_Vg1U_Mf84asRBWfLUWkNE6XpV0@jntp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2024 22:42:29 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="ce358e0d0d9664a700ff455d87f9b3cd"; logging-data="1602375"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18hZVjHmioMUZI8oqQgExiwIL7UT0AQW38=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:YCGD6F3OIXO/ajkgrR2ieEF1FFc= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2353 On 7/9/2024 9:53 AM, WM wrote: > Le 09/07/2024 à 16:35, Moebius a écrit : >> Am 09.07.2024 um 15:23 schrieb joes: >>> Am Tue, 09 Jul 2024 11:49:21 +0000 schrieb WM: >> >>>> many don't understand that ℵo unit fractions cannot occupy a distance >>>> smaller than all positive distances. Can you? >> >>> What does this mean? It should read "smaller than ANY". >> >> Es bedeutet, dass Mückenheim (in diesem Kontext) nicht zwischen AxEy >> und EyAx unterscheiden kann. > > That is nonsense. Either there is a first unit fraction or this is not > the case. There is a first unit fraction at 1/1. However, there is no last unit fraction... :^) > If it is not the case, then NUF(x) increases by more than 1, > say by X, at that x where it is leaving 0. But then there must exist an > x occupied by more than one, namely by X, unit fractions. Contradiction. > > No quantifier magic. > > Regards, WM