Path: ...!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: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:47:30 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 33 Message-ID: References: <094dadad718eaa3827ad225d54aaa45b880dd821@i2pn2.org> <3399a95e386bc5864f1cfcfc9f91f48366e0fed2@i2pn2.org> <0d551828411c0588000796fa107a16b1e23a866c@i2pn2.org> <74bdc0f14fd0f2c6bfd9ac511a37f66b41948ac4@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 13:47:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c982331c931bcefed6712411caadd817"; logging-data="1807451"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/U1tX++nfq8dEUNInt4IMONzcHpIDzaOo=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:4mLZQ6pS1zk53r3V9QrAri+nBz8= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2920 On 23.11.2024 13:35, FromTheRafters wrote: > WM has brought this to us : >> On 23.11.2024 13:20, FromTheRafters wrote: >>> WM laid this down on his screen : >> >>>> Let every unit interval after a natural number on the real axis be >>>> coloured white with exception of the intervals after the prime >>>> numbers which are coloured red. It is impossible to shift the red >>>> intervals so that the whole real axis becomes red. Every interval >>>> (10n, 10 (n+1)] is deficient - on the whole real axis. >>> >>> So what? Your imaginings don't affect the fact that there is a >>> bijection. >> >> If there was a bijection, > > There is. > >> then the whole axis could become red. > > What makes you think that? A bijection proves that every prime number (and its colour) can be put to a natural number (and colour it). > >> Do you believe that? > > No, of course not. Relieving. Regards, WM