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: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:18:46 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <8ce3fac3a0c92d85c72fec966d424548baebe5af@i2pn2.org> <55cbb075e2f793e3c52f55af73c82c61d2ce8d44@i2pn2.org> <05a3027798506434bf2f30b527e0f57d300e76c3@i2pn2.org> <6f188d193341a3862f4c788a44dff3dfb27fb6bd@i2pn2.org> <81f6f0271a53803c0bf79be304ce2484e33aecda@i2pn2.org> <9c40b18616ae46bd3220da775ee80456b643c982@i2pn2.org> <50b4ecf5c6f8f0c7bd580775c382896660500045@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 8 Oct 2024 19:18:46 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1145797"; 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: 2525 Lines: 14 Am Tue, 08 Oct 2024 17:34:39 +0200 schrieb WM: > On 08.10.2024 15:36, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 10/8/24 6:03 AM, WM wrote: >>> On 08.10.2024 09:30, Moebius wrote: >>>> Am 08.10.2024 um 09:29 schrieb Moebius: >>> Yes, but it is completed and therefore fixed. The number of nines in >>> 0.999... does not change when shifted by one step. >> But it must be infinite, and thus not have an "end" > But it must be complete and therefore in linear order must have an end. In what sense are infinite sets incomplete? -- 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.