Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:58:12 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <35794ceb-825a-45df-a55b-0a879cfe80ae@att.net> <40ac3ed2-5648-48c0-ac8f-61bdfd1c1e20@att.net> <71fea361-0069-4a98-89a4-6de2eef62c5e@att.net> <6d9f3b10-47ad-459c-9536-098ce91f514b@att.net> <16028da0-456b-47ad-8baa-7982a7cbdf10@att.net> <1fca3a53-1cb4-4fd2-85b6-85e9b69ca23b@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 09:58:12 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af4ddc49f10b212ff39721a61d61a434"; logging-data="1590571"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/IGyB9Q0JcKSjzc/y+9UtyB8OKP+FebCE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:JCZayRUZW9UDr83HnorA+qSp3yE= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2614 On 11.11.2024 22:50, FromTheRafters wrote: > It happens that WM formulated : >> >> For that claim you need an infinite set of claims. > > Good thing we have such. No. > >>> This is one ?????: >>> ⎛ All fractions are in bijection with >>> ⎝ all natural numbers. >> >> It is wrong. > > You 'think' it is wrong because you intuitively think it 'should' be > wrong. Saying it is wrong does not make it wrong no matter how many > times that you say it. Therefore I prove it. The set of intervals I(n) = [n - 1/10, n + 1/10] cannot cover all fractions on the real axis. Regards, WM