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: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:41:18 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <864fcf57e8b06354bfb8c125be76f6e9b1f4e5fb@i2pn2.org> References: <8b3e744d-3419-40c3-a7c6-fe59edd528a9@tha.de> <851e9929-8ab7-49d1-b478-e65c61fba2e3@att.net> <78a0f795-f1c0-4ba5-90f9-acf667968011@att.net> <67e26dda-ec44-4927-82ac-dfc17dc3d07d@att.net> <53e48f71-1b93-4f2e-a21a-68a40b6ccefd@att.net> <0fe7418c059c5ae4c456927eed937f9df34bb7b4@i2pn2.org> <14315d09f608b98681817348c19ededcfc4fba3b@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 6 Oct 2024 11:41:18 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="812061"; 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: 3392 Lines: 27 Am Sat, 05 Oct 2024 20:54:21 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 05.10.2024 15:02, joes wrote: >> Am Sat, 05 Oct 2024 11:32:44 +0200 schrieb WM: >>> On 05.10.2024 10:08, joes wrote: >>>> Am Fri, 04 Oct 2024 22:09:41 +0200 schrieb WM: >>>>> But it is no quantifier shift but simplest logic: >>>>> If ℵ₀ unit fractions do not sit at one point (and are not dark) then >>>>> they can be subdivided into smaller parts. >>>> Which they can. >>> Do it. Fail because slightly fewer is not possible. >> What do you mean? All the unit fractions have, as you say, >> finite distances, which means there are numbers inbetween. > But these numbers and these unit fractions cannot be found. It is > impossible to define a unit fraction having less than ℵo smaller unit > fractions. It is impossible to define a unit fraction being closer to > zero although it is obvious that there are points closer to zero than > ℵo*2^ℵo points. Yes, the can be found, for example by the arithmetic mean. There simply are no unit fractions with a finite number of lesser UFs, otherwise those that are greater couldn’t have an infinite number less than them. You cannot start from zero, count a finite number of UFs, and reach an infinity in ever greater steps. It is always possible to increase the denominator to get a UF closer to 0. Every point has a finite distance from zero, i.e. an infinite number of points inbetween. -- 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.