Path: ...!news.mixmin.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? (infinitary) Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2024 11:08:33 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <8ce3fac3a0c92d85c72fec966d424548baebe5af@i2pn2.org> <55cbb075e2f793e3c52f55af73c82c61d2ce8d44@i2pn2.org> <4bc3b086-247a-4547-89cc-1d47f502659d@tha.de> <0f95c2ba186e7c007b2e947aad0e3f4d6177e196@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 07 Oct 2024 11:08:33 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fd3fb77fcebc56d1245266f88f97f893"; logging-data="1731390"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19QAaLSubdD0kNm98hfcebHvR0k0ZyjWA4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:OXLfA85Jw3oZocvyIZbDrGRiNVU= In-Reply-To: <0f95c2ba186e7c007b2e947aad0e3f4d6177e196@i2pn2.org> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2546 On 07.10.2024 10:05, joes wrote: > Am Mon, 07 Oct 2024 09:41:23 +0200 schrieb WM: >> On 06.10.2024 17:48, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> even an unbounded sequence does not get longer when shifted by one >> step. > Nor does it get shorter, it stays infinite. It keeps all its elements but not more. > Bijection is not about completeness, countability is. Bijective means injective and surjective. > Of course stopping > after a finite number, which potential infinity seems to mean, is not > „complete” in that sense. Hilbert’s Hotel is actually infinite, it > already holds infinite guests. Name them by all the natural numbers. Then no further guest can appear. > All of them can at once move to the next > room, All rooms are enumerated by all the natural numbers. Hence there is no chance to move. Only in potential infinity there is. Regards, WM