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From: FromTheRafters <FTR@nomail.afraid.org>
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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2024 18:37:48 -0400
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After serious thinking Chris M. Thomasson wrote :
> On 10/4/2024 1:47 PM, FromTheRafters wrote:
>> WM formulated the question :
>>> On 04.10.2024 17:36, Moebius wrote:
>>>> Am 04.10.2024 um 17:10 schrieb joes:
>>>>> Am Fri, 04 Oct 2024 11:23:13 +0200 schrieb WM:
>>>>
>>>>>> This is the precondition: The unit fractions are all existing! If so,
>>>>>> then they are different fixed points on the positive real line above
>>>>>> zero. Hence one is the first after zero.
>>>>
>>>> But the MAIN PROBLEM is his usage of "hence", which clearly is not 
>>>> correct. Why on earth should there be a "first after zero".
>>>
>>> Points on the real line are real points. One is the first.
>> 
>> Sounds intuitive, but for each first there is a firster.
>
> Now WM is trying to say there is a first real number?

....and it is dark. :D