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From: Richard Damon <richard@damon-family.org>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions?
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:11:37 -0400
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On 9/10/24 12:18 PM, WM wrote:
> On 09.09.2024 21:51, joes wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> What begins after zero? Does there something related to unit fractions 
> exist?
> 
> Regards, WM
> 

And infinite set that approaches it arbitrarily close. It is an 
unbounded end.