Path: ...!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: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:07:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <87414b50e6265e6e443c4486913201749f2696ed@i2pn2.org> References: <405557f7289631d63264c712d137244c940b9926@i2pn2.org> <13c08e96ad635f8142b38d89863a80caf17a32a8@i2pn2.org> <4faa63d0ff8c163f01a38736aeb5732184218a29@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:07:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2197202"; 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: 2561 Lines: 18 Am Sun, 15 Sep 2024 21:52:30 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 14.09.2024 18:33, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 9/14/24 10:01 AM, WM wrote: > >>> Two points are next to each other means that no point is between them. >> And, since for ANY two points on the real number line, x, and y, the >> point (x+y)/2 is another real point between them, > Why don't you start with (x+y)/2? Or better with the end of the > sequence? In actual infinity you could. Sure, inbetween (x+y)/2 and x is (3x+y)/4. There is no end. >> there are absolutely NO points on the real line next to each other. > No definable points, to be precise. If there is no point next to 0 then > there is a gap. I do not accept gaps on the real line. I.e. „neighbouring” points can’t be defined. There are no gaps. -- 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.