Path: ...!news.mixmin.net!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? Date: Sun, 13 Oct 2024 15:12:43 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <405557f7289631d63264c712d137244c940b9926@i2pn2.org> <13c08e96ad635f8142b38d89863a80caf17a32a8@i2pn2.org> <4faa63d0ff8c163f01a38736aeb5732184218a29@i2pn2.org> <1aabd037-86bc-47bd-b402-f6b29c5c33e4@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 14 Oct 2024 00:12:44 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0283312c41d85a82cbe7146692a7c317"; logging-data="907125"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/hNZJOrxBIspGFrCuk+2iOggK3ad5TEe4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:yHcb9VTZ5EtBWvpAFIqznQLwW3Y= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2682 On 9/18/2024 7:31 AM, Jim Burns wrote: > On 9/18/2024 8:39 AM, WM wrote: >> On 16.09.2024 19:30, Jim Burns wrote: >>> On 9/15/2024 3:47 PM, WM wrote: > >>>> I don't believe in gaps on the real line. >>> >>> There aren't gaps and there aren't next.numbers >>> in numbers.situating.splits of rationals with >>> countable.to.numerators.and.denominators >> >> So what is next instead? > > What is between one and the next? > A gap. With regard to a very _strict) line of thinking (no mixing and matching), say 100% natural numbers... There is NO "gap" between, say: 3 and 4 > > There is no gap in the real line. > > There is no next in the real line. > If there were, there'd be a gap. > >