Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2024 19:33:09 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <298dcb6f-5f58-48b6-80e3-34260bf721f8@att.net> <283c426f-ab1c-4ef0-a06c-1bf7d28a2cfa@att.net> <6b50a171-8127-4ce6-9bd3-2dc213638e9b@att.net> <519db81b-4a4d-417d-8cd2-7fef5a342efd@att.net> <6704347e-2f99-40f2-887f-de93f6fdd659@tha.de> <8b3e744d-3419-40c3-a7c6-fe59edd528a9@tha.de> <851e9929-8ab7-49d1-b478-e65c61fba2e3@att.net> <78a0f795-f1c0-4ba5-90f9-acf667968011@att.net> <4d19f826ec791e8f02653e99017920a058910235@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 01 Oct 2024 19:33:09 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4b7ef44294cf1e3ce64009e31b927c57"; logging-data="2974715"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+u8dFyVWnZddGn983qQTa8QXPeC3E73hE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:hjUn15UvP3YBlXVqdcV75m2tGUs= In-Reply-To: <4d19f826ec791e8f02653e99017920a058910235@i2pn2.org> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2809 On 01.10.2024 01:07, Richard Damon wrote: > On 9/30/24 2:54 PM, WM wrote: >> NUF(0) = 0 and NUF(1) = ℵo. ∀n ∈ ℕ: 1/n - 1/(n+1) > 0 shows that at no >> point x NUF can increase by more than one step 1. It is fact with your >> set too. I am not responsible. I only made the discovery. > > Actually, it shows that at no point CAN it increase by 1. Wrong because it cannot start with ℵo. > > For any finite number x, NUF(x) will be Aleph_0, and Aleph_0 when you > attempt to "increment" it, doesn't change. If NUF is ℵo at all x > 0 then it must count ℵo unit fractions at 0. Wrong. > > Since there is no finite value of x where NUF(x) can be 1 Wrong presupposition. Regards, WM