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From: Moebius <invalid@example.invalid>
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Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit
 fractions? (infinitary)
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:14:07 +0100
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Am 30.10.2024 um 21:34 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
> On 10/30/2024 1:19 PM, Moebius wrote:

>> Mückenheim's great discovery is that the DISTANCE between two 
>> "adjacent" unit fractions is always > 0. Incredible!
>>
>> For absolutely no reason he now "thinks" that this fact implies a 
>> smallest unit fraction. :-)
>>
> We know that the unit fractions tend to zero but never equal it. So, WM 
> thinks well, the limit means finite? Or some shit like that? Humm...

Yeah. He just can't comprehend the idea of infinitely many <whatever>.