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? (infinitary) Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:50:25 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <54699971b4dc5e672bdee847482d377a03144531@i2pn2.org> References: <4bc3b086-247a-4547-89cc-1d47f502659d@tha.de> <3f5fcf13171337f1c3d2ef84cc149be327648451@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2024 22:50:25 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1680996"; 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: 3457 Lines: 36 Am Sat, 12 Oct 2024 19:49:23 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 10.10.2024 21:54, joes wrote: >> Am Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:53:07 +0200 schrieb WM: >>> On 10.10.2024 20:45, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>> WM wrote: >>> >>>>> If all natnumbers are there and if 2n is greater than n, then the >>>>> doubled numbers do not fit into ℕ. >>>> For any finite n greater than zero, 2n is greater than n. The same >>>> does not hold for infinite n. >>> There are no infinite n = natural numbers. >> Exactly! There are furthermore no infinite doubles of naturals (2n). > But the doubles are larger. Hence after doubling the set has a smaller > density and therefore a larger extension on the real line. Hence not all > natural numbers have been doubled. Taking "density" here to mean cardinality div. by size(?) makes it pretty much undefined, since those are both infinite - with N just as with 2N=G (what's the difference anyway?). The real line reaches until, but does not include omega, no matter your step size. What value do you suppose n^2 and n^n diverge to? >>>>>>> Numbers multiplied by 2 do not remain unchanged. >>>>> Either doubling creates new natural numbers. Then not all have been >>>>> doubled. Or all have been doubled, then some products fall outside >>>>> of ℕ. >>>> No. Not even close. >>> Deplorable. But note that all natural numbers are finite and follow >>> this law: When doubled then 2n > n. If a set of natural numbers is >>> doubled, then the results cover a larger set than before.. >> Additionally: if n is finite, so is 2n. It cannot go beyond w. > Then there is no complete set. The doubling can be repeated and > repeated. Always new numbers are created. Potential infinity. No! Actual infinity already includes all doubles of all numbers. -- 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.