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: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2024 18:33:13 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <4faa63d0ff8c163f01a38736aeb5732184218a29@i2pn2.org> <87414b50e6265e6e443c4486913201749f2696ed@i2pn2.org> <5b130929c7f56ea83246b7f6534ba5fae4598c62@i2pn2.org> <2551da6710975930f68b61f8e76ea6990411168b@i2pn2.org> <2c1940845e336c71cf55b737945d3132b1a41e62@i2pn2.org> <59204af99930441bf5a2cb92d80a34e25a0d0835@i2pn2.org> <649d66170b7274e49882940c18cde7817e62c560@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 23 Sep 2024 03:33:14 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="57077e43f9083b2c8af43c64109cbf78"; logging-data="2552142"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FZjeJfVFFfpKrpDCb6B0dL9MmMgCAxHo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:tdBiA6o8/tFj6zAurnUZbfupB9s= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3002 On 9/22/2024 4:44 PM, Moebius wrote: > Am 23.09.2024 um 01:35 schrieb Moebius: >> Am 23.09.2024 um 01:28 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: >> >> Concerning the integers: >> >>> [...} each number has infiniteLY MANY predecessors and infiniteLY >>> MANY successors. >> >> ... > > Btw. we might define "signed unit fractions" too (just for fun). > > Def.: x e IR is a /signed unit fraction/ iff there is an z in Z such > that x = 1/z. > > Then the signed unit fractions are just the numbers > >    -1/1, -1/2, -1/3, ... ... 1/3, 1/2, 1/1. > > 0 would be a very special point here. No signed unit fraction, but > "surrounded" by infinitely many signed unit fractions. Moreover, they > would be arbitrarilly dense "there" (i.e. in the environment of 0). > > Indeed they would. Kind of reminds me a new fractal I made using a single line as a starting point. It creates a square out of the line: https://www.facebook.com/share/p/xHrCG6wRHYp9QrhS