Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary) Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2024 13:47:03 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 20 Message-ID: References: <30dffbdf129483f7b61e3284d1e7bf2ad2e5ea16@i2pn2.org> <9ca97f4a24ae1e3041583265125cf860d2fada11@i2pn2.org> <6ed3abd1b4d30ed6db4b9152f7a0ad5da583f147@i2pn2.org> <9a16dc217c4a1833dd297216773623a70ad06a10@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 13:47:03 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="630bae5f6bdc1d92d0fa1afbef0f4568"; logging-data="333635"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18TB8pwKvxXZ/wuTl+pTqsF49b4rAAKQoQ=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:z4g76XU6WN4rMV3K/TaYUoNRhz0= In-Reply-To: <9a16dc217c4a1833dd297216773623a70ad06a10@i2pn2.org> Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2825 On 03.11.2024 09:52, joes wrote: > Am Sat, 02 Nov 2024 18:42:15 +0100 schrieb WM: >> On 02.11.2024 14:50, Moebius wrote: >>> Am 02.11.2024 um 14:21 schrieb joes: >>>> Am Fri, 01 Nov 2024 18:03:26 +0100 schrieb WM: >>> >>>>> If an invariable set of numbers is there, then there is a smallest >>>>> and a largest number of those which are existing. >>> or each and every n e IN there is an n' e IN (say n' = n+1) >> Actual infinity is not based on claims for each and every, but concerns >> all. > Lol. That actually sheds some light on your thought process: > how do you suppose some property holds for all x, but not > for every? Every natnumber is finite. But here I mean that not only induction can be applied and that induction is not valid for all natnumbers. Regards, WM