Path: ...!news.misty.com!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: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:07:36 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <4bc3b086-247a-4547-89cc-1d47f502659d@tha.de> <63da70aac88f4557a59f027abee5cf9c466ada76@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 23:07:36 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1447870"; 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: 2803 Lines: 24 Am Thu, 10 Oct 2024 20:03:46 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 09.10.2024 19:30, joes wrote: >> Am Wed, 09 Oct 2024 16:40:21 +0200 schrieb WM: >>> When we *in actual infinity* multiply all |ℕ|natural numbers by 2, >>> then we keep |ℕ| numbers but only half of them are smaller than ω, >>> i.e., are natural numbers. The other half is larger than ω. >> So 2N = G u {w, w+2, w+4, ..., w+w-2}? > If all numbers are there initially and multiplied by 2. And if every > number 2n is greater than n, then this is unavoidable. > Note the premise: If all are there. Actual infinity! You say w/2 were natural and comes after the darkness. What is the smallest such number, w/w? And what is the biggest number that comes before? >> But what about the limit case, the intersection of all endsegments, >> or the set which has lost an infinite number of elements? > The endsegment which has lost an infinite number of elements is empty > and causes an empty intersection. But infinite endsegments have not lost > an infinite number of numbers. WDYM "causes"? There is no such segment. WDYM "inf. endsegments"? Inf. many of them or inf. sized ones? -- 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.