Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math,alt.crackpot Subject: Re: Does the number of nines increase? Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 13:21:12 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <89d87a83-55b7-4d4f-bd48-e57f9fb71306@att.net> <74434c50-c747-4bce-853d-b7f8a9d0ef50@att.net> <-8_ECzK8niPUPiyxStcpsZWzJqA@jntp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2024 13:21:12 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2688747"; 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: 2961 Lines: 38 Am Tue, 09 Jul 2024 12:08:46 +0000 schrieb WM: > Le 09/07/2024 à 02:15, Jim Burns a écrit : >> On 7/8/2024 3:57 PM, WM wrote: >>> Le 08/07/2024 à 19:33, Jim Burns a écrit : >> >>>> A change needs be _with respect to_ something, >>> yes, to the value befor that point. >> Yes, for example, floor(0) with respect to floor(0-ε) >> Or, yes, to the value after that point > No, my definition _for this concrete case_ is this: A change of NUF(x) > happens at point x if for all y < x NUF(x) > NUF(y). Why this direction of less/greater than? >> Does each nonempty set S of unit.fractionsᵂᴹ hold a largest element? > A largest and a smallest. Alas the smallest can only be found if it is > not dark. Why should there be a smallest element? >> Does each unit.fractionᵂᴹ u (including 1) >> have a next.smaller unit.fractionᵂᴹ ⅟(1+⅟u) ? > Obviously not, as I have demonstrated irrefutably (refuted only by > people who cannot think clear enough. But every unit fraction that can > be named has a next smaller unit fraction. "Named", which is all of them. >> Does each unit.fractionᵂᴹ v (excluding 1) >> have a next.larger unit.fractionᵂᴹ ⅟(-1+⅟v) ? > Yes, but for all dark unit fractions this cannot be found. Every unit > fraction excluding 1/1 that can be named has a next larger unit > fraction. >> Or is what you're talking about irrelevant to what you're saying? > Relevant is this and only this: NUF(0) = 0, and the first step happens > at x > 0. Like every step it is a step by 1. The only step is at 0. -- Am Fri, 28 Jun 2024 16:52:17 -0500 schrieb olcott: Objectively I am a genius.