Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 09:00:07 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <1c3621054ce792d5c0a795404cc50662a9753b56@i2pn2.org> References: <890ae313-aa9b-4f49-a53a-2374c9957f01@tha.de> <2555906859e8d5836476a38f4fc437a67872f331@i2pn2.org> <534e5cd6b7a01203c28113337f108c745e57c6ae@i2pn2.org> <380cad54-83a7-4f20-976e-01d810d66c0a@att.net> <841bf27c18dffdc4ce0ea4d6392ccdfea2cef821@i2pn2.org> <461bf21a7f094701b936484f17bd3d68211fcf81@i2pn2.org> <5086a1e540cdfb8fd979d8eca95ab8123166bf54@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2024 09:00:07 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="502359"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="nS1KMHaUuWOnF/ukOJzx6Ssd8y16q9UPs1GZ+I3D0CM"; User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2751 Lines: 17 Am Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:34:20 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 03.10.2024 01:03, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 10/2/24 7:57 AM, WM wrote: > >>> Of course all gaps between unit fractions are made of more than >>> finitely many points. I never denied that. >> But that also means that no point are "next to" each other. > Therefore NUF can increase at most by 1 at every real point. >>> Try to learn the basics and to understand ∀n ∈ ℕ: 1/n - 1/(n+1) > 0. >> Which means that for all n that are in the Natural numbers, for the >> unit fraction  1/n, theree DOES EXIST another unit fraction 1/(n+1) >> that is smaller than it. > That is true for all visible and most dark numbers bu not for all. What is the distance between the last natural and its successor? -- Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math: It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.