Path: ...!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: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 13:46:42 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 24 Message-ID: References: <8c94a117d7ddaba3e7858116dc5bc7c66a46c405@i2pn2.org> <8ce3fac3a0c92d85c72fec966d424548baebe5af@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2024 13:46:51 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a34c2b7bc97ca77b026982e25612c343"; logging-data="1263110"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX199QuZJTcylac7wf7NQ97MT4zSthVuphkM=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:es5P/Kq6ftOjQedH/Yz3mWVvqzs= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2756 On 06.10.2024 04:57, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/5/24 3:04 PM, WM wrote: >> On 05.10.2024 15:32, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 10/5/24 8:18 AM, WM wrote: >>>> On 05.10.2024 13:12, Richard Damon wrote: >>>> >>>>> >>>>> But actual infinity doesn't exist. >>>>> >>>> How can bijections between infinite sets exist then. >> >>> Because the sets exist as what you think of as "potential" infinity, >> >> "the integers separately as well as in their actually infinite >> totality exist as eternal ideas in intellectu Divino in the highest >> degree of reality." [G. Cantor, letter to C. Hermite (30 Nov 1895)] > > but that isn't what your "actual infinity" is, that is just protential > infinity. No. Regards, WM