Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!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: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:53:11 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <062a0fa5-9a15-4649-8095-22c877af5ebf@att.net> <276fc9df-619b-4a10-b414-a04a74aa7378@att.net> <88e6a631-417a-4dd0-9443-a57116dcbd28@att.net> <7a1e34df-ffee-4d30-ae8c-2af5bcb1d932@att.net> <6a90a2e2-a4fa-4a8d-83e9-2e451fa8dd51@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2024 11:53:11 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="4166020"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org" User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) Bytes: 3252 Lines: 37 Am Tue, 29 Oct 2024 09:42:07 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 29.10.2024 01:21, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 10/28/24 3:52 PM, WM wrote: >>> On 28.10.2024 12:21, Richard Damon wrote: >>>> On 10/28/24 6:36 AM, WM wrote: >>> >>>>> NUF increases by 1 or more, but more would violate mathematics. >>>> No, NUF(x) jumps from 0 to Aleph_0 in the domain of finite numbers, >>>> because there is no finite x where it has the value of 0. >>> It has the value 0 for all x =< 0. And it cannot jump by more than 1 >>> at any point. >> Of course it can. just not at any finite value. > There are no others on the real line. That's the point (pun unintended). >>> No, but the first steps happen at undefinable x. >> No, it happens at an x that isn't a finite number. > The nit is dark. I.e. infinitesimal. >> If you allow your NUF to accept infintesimal numbers > No, that is strongly forbidden. Then there is no x with NUF(x)=1. >>>>> This infinity between 0 and (0, 1] is not what I can accept. >>>> Note, it isn't an "infinity between" it is that the "bottom" of (0, >>>> 1] doesn't exist as a definable point. >>> That is true. The bottom is dark. >> No, the bottom is outside the set. > Then it is dark bottom. >> Your "Darkness" is just your attempt to hide the problems with your >> logic. > And your bottom outside the set is what? The infimum is 0. -- 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.