Path: ...!3.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary) Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:20:44 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 27 Message-ID: References: <53460f91-4542-4a92-bc4b-833c2ad61e52@att.net> <29ce40e9-f18a-44d4-84d9-23e587cf9dea@att.net> <2b6f9104-a927-49ee-9cf0-6ee3f82edc23@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 10:20:45 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="7e7585e2b1fd89460481779f0d910934"; logging-data="3998399"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+wv85H311f70/1HxXg5ki8UMnejCelcLo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:EN3U6eMaC58iTCrwfLLAF7OP5+A= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2353 On 10/19/2024 1:10 AM, WM wrote: > On 17.10.2024 23:22, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> WM wrote: > >>> If you can't understand or don't believe, then there is no common basis >>> for discussion. >> >> It's not a matter of belief.  It's a matter of correct and rigorous >> mathematics. > > When doubling natural numbers we obtain even numbers which have not been > doubled. Oh boy... Wow. Name just one of them? lol. { 1*2, 2*2, 3*2, 4*2, 5*2, ... } > > This is a sentence that every mathematician can understand. It is true > because the interval covered by the doubled numbers is twice as large as > the interval covered by the numbers t be doubled. > > Regards, WM >