Path: ...!feeds.phibee-telecom.net!2.eu.feeder.erje.net!feeder.erje.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: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:50:34 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <4bc3b086-247a-4547-89cc-1d47f502659d@tha.de> <48b939c8a1dfbe9ea0f38dd276df4f31bbe17a1f@i2pn2.org> <7d31b6a003f7e2de41bf5b632db5547aefc345a5@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 20:50:34 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="88f31973c53c6567c402ba0f57f95e15"; logging-data="298823"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+pnRifzIxIpVTGCDMy6xqADA3Q67RX/Yc=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:N/8+jMjSEDyqOZDwdMQmTphEciE= In-Reply-To: <7d31b6a003f7e2de41bf5b632db5547aefc345a5@i2pn2.org> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2716 On 12.10.2024 16:55, Richard Damon wrote: > On 10/12/24 9:32 AM, WM wrote: >> On 10.10.2024 21:48, joes wrote: >>> Am Wed, 09 Oct 2024 18:47:39 +0200 schrieb WM: >> >>>> Numbers multiplied by 2 do not remain unchanged. That is not intuition >>>> but mathematics. >>> They do, however, remain natural. >> >> They do not remain the same set as before. They cover more of the real >> line. If they all are natnumbers, then there are more than at the >> outset. That means potential infinity. If there are not more natumbers >> than at the outset, then infinite numbers have been created. There is >> no way to avoid one of these results. > No, they do not cover "more" of the line, as they still cover exactly > Aleph_0 point within the range of the finite numbers below omega. Wrong. > > The problem is you are applying properties of FINITE sets Wrong, I use properties of finite numbers. Regards, WM