Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 19:51:35 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <9498e0c982f3e2ec8939341156ba52b4503c220d@i2pn2.org> References: <7e1e3f62-1fba-4484-8e34-6ff8f1e54625@att.net> <06ee7920-eff2-4687-be98-67a89b301c93@att.net> <38ypmjbnu3EfnKYR4tSIu-WavbA@jntp> <34e11216-439f-4b11-bdff-1a252ac98f8f@att.net> <27b3b5e088d82d4475c68a64f50a4bccac9c6f29@i2pn2.org> <035b16b56a204dfe5e561b3cfe03238167dba39a@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 9 Sep 2024 19:51:35 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1455459"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="nS1KMHaUuWOnF/ukOJzx6Ssd8y16q9UPs1GZ+I3D0CM"; User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2320 Lines: 12 Am Mon, 09 Sep 2024 21:08:42 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 09.09.2024 17:55, joes wrote: >> Am Mon, 09 Sep 2024 17:15:23 +0200 schrieb WM: > >>> Note that unit fractions are points on the real line. Therefore there >>> is a beginning. >> How does that follow? > What configuration could be the alternative? An infinite chain beginning at 1. -- Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math: It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.