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: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:36:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <94e7d95290f394cdd10621927005e14b049be4c6@i2pn2.org> References: <405557f7289631d63264c712d137244c940b9926@i2pn2.org> <13c08e96ad635f8142b38d89863a80caf17a32a8@i2pn2.org> <4faa63d0ff8c163f01a38736aeb5732184218a29@i2pn2.org> <1aabd037-86bc-47bd-b402-f6b29c5c33e4@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:36:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2611098"; 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: 2812 Lines: 26 Am Thu, 19 Sep 2024 12:38:43 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 18.09.2024 16:31, Jim Burns wrote: >> On 9/18/2024 8:39 AM, WM wrote: >>> On 16.09.2024 19:30, Jim Burns wrote: >>>> On 9/15/2024 3:47 PM, WM wrote: >> >>>>> I don't believe in gaps on the real line. >>>> >>>> There aren't gaps and there aren't next.numbers in >>>> numbers.situating.splits of rationals with >>>> countable.to.numerators.and.denominators >>> >>> So what is next instead? >> >> What is between one and the next? A gap. >> There is no gap in the real line. >> There is no next in the real line. >> If there were, there'd be a gap. >> > Try to use logic. Either there is a point next to zero or there is no > point next to zero, that means there is nothing, i.e., a gap. If there were a point next to zero, there would be a gap inbetween. Instead, there is an infinity. -- 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.