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: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 10:43:32 +0200 Organization: - Lines: 46 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: Mon, 25 Nov 2024 09:43:32 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="0e52653a61223179dd825c51ec26aa65"; logging-data="2843415"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18tbn78gfYWejyisYS1+x3r" User-Agent: Unison/2.2 Cancel-Lock: sha1:NM/S/VjVTLPTLNHvZ5Wp4YPbL2k= Bytes: 3643 On 2024-11-24 14:01:15 +0000, WM said: > On 24.11.2024 13:38, Mikko wrote: >> On 2024-11-23 08:49:18 +0000, WM said: >> >>>>> It is relevant by three reasons: >>>>> 1) The limit of the sequence f(n) of relative coverings in (0, n] is >>>>> 1/10, not 1. Therefore the relative covering 1 would contradict >>>>> analysis. >>>>> 2) Since for all intervals (0, n] the relative covering is 1/10, the >>>>> additional blackies must be taken from the nowhere. >>>>> 3) Since a shifted blacky leaves a white unit interval where it has >>>>> left, the white must remain such that the whole real axis can never >>>>> become black. >>>> >>>> You say that it is relevant but you don't show how that is relevant >>>> to the fact that there is no real number between the intervals (n/2, n/2+1) >>>> that is not a part of at least one of those intervals. >>> >>> Because that has nothing to do with the topic under discussion. See >>> points 1, 2, and 3. They are to be discussed. >> >> The subject line specifies that the discussion should be about Cantor's >> enumeration of the rational numbers. >> >> OP specifies that the discussion shall be baout the sequence of >> itnrevals > > That is a mistake. Should read: > [q_n - ε*sqrt(2)/2^n, q_n + ε*sqrt(2)/2^n]. OK but the following applies to that, too: >> The 1, 2, and 3 above are not relevant to the topic sepcified by the >> subject line and OP. > My last example contradicts a simpler bijection, namely that between > all natural numbers and all natural numbers divisible by 10: Let every > unit interval on the real axis after a number 10n carry a black hat. > Then it should be possible to cover all intervals with black hats. What does "contradicts" in "contradicts a simpler bijection"? -- Mikko