Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Moebius Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:36:41 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: References: <16028da0-456b-47ad-8baa-7982a7cbdf10@att.net> <1fca3a53-1cb4-4fd2-85b6-85e9b69ca23b@att.net> <97304048-24f5-4625-82a7-d17427f2f6e3@att.net> <65febd06-662b-4fa4-9aa8-f7353a79a110@att.net> <157a949d-6c19-4693-8cee-9e067268ae45@att.net> <8165b44b-1ba5-429d-8317-0b043b214b53@att.net> Reply-To: invalid@example.invalid MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2024 22:36:42 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="15c90d85591a14fd3268ca5210dec9e6"; logging-data="244622"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+UboFscf8xjJOpMYHeXYtl" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:qQgv/caMcy98ssC2fmgaKNQVakU= Content-Language: de-DE In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2529 Am 16.11.2024 um 22:11 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: > On 11/16/2024 1:09 PM, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >> >> (infinity - infinity) = undefined >> >> ? Right. > Say taking all of the infinite even numbers away... That leaves an > infinite number of odd numbers? This type of thought. Exactly. IN = {1, 2, 3, 4, ...} is infinite and E = {2, 4, 6, ...} is infinite. But {1, 2, 3, 4, ...} \ {2, 4, 6, ...} is still infinite. While on the other hand {1, 2, 3, 4, ...} \ {1, 2, 3, 4, ...} = {} (and hence not infinite).