Path: ...!news.roellig-ltd.de!open-news-network.org!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.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: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:34:28 +0200 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <2b6f9104-a927-49ee-9cf0-6ee3f82edc23@att.net> <22f95ff7-c361-4d8a-943c-1df76abb98cc@att.net> <9c55eda1-bb24-44ae-9158-2a3b354170cd@att.net> <30b58bd38b2264ae8ca180a544cc88ee34c6d8fa@i2pn2.org> <45df31bad2d3e517cb48ab1f0eb7ff6f80999bf3@i2pn2.org> <5e5ccee7-0c98-4701-aeaa-4950a3ce2938@att.net> <08a00c75-bf8d-4f9c-816a-83b8517ca04e@att.net> <062a0fa5-9a15-4649-8095-22c877af5ebf@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 22 Oct 2024 20:34:28 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af54e7ce745bf3f004a5d8c537a29883"; logging-data="1695306"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+w+XC8ghs0f0ajhdd1nKE2+EpKu8XhsKI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NmjUHGFzdS2pAvvkkN8+v0rWQTo= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2610 On 22.10.2024 19:38, Jim Burns wrote: > The description of each element in ℕ > requires its double to also be in ℕ All that is in ℕ, according to your opinion, is accepted. If you find that the set ic complete, then it is doubled. > > ...not so different from the way in which > the description of a right triangle > requires > the square of its longest side to equal > the sum of the squares of the two other sides. Your above expression is in fact a very closely related one. Regards, WM