Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Mikko Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 12:59:04 +0200 Organization: - Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: <5b8de1bc-9f6c-4dde-a7cd-9e22e8ce19d9@att.net> <31419fde-62b3-46f3-89f6-a48f1fe82bc0@att.net> <476ae6cb-1116-44b1-843e-4be90d594372@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 11:59:04 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b4dcbcf5c86b7a5e9dc6c30ffc3c299d"; logging-data="655105"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19llVOcH2lcLnw+RfkS6X3g" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:owt0CtU7BvDg4dXL1FE06b/8HpQ= Bytes: 2517 On 2024-11-21 10:21:40 +0000, WM said: > On 21.11.2024 10:16, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-11-20 11:42:15 +0000, WM said: > >>> The intervals before and after shifting are not different. Only their >>> positions are. >> >> The intervals are different. A shifted interval contains a different >> set of numbers. > > Consider this simplified argument. Let every unit interval after a > natural number n which is divisible by 10 be coloured black: (10n, > 10n+1]. All others are white. Is it possible to shift the black > intervals so that the whole real axis becomes black? Yes. Shift the interval (10n, 10n+1) to (n/2, n/2+1). -- Mikko