Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 10:00:08 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: <4a810760-86a1-44bb-a191-28f70e0b361b@att.net> <23311c1a-1487-4ee4-a822-cd965bd024a0@att.net> <71758f338eb239b7419418f49dfd8177c59d778b@i2pn2.org> <9bcc128b-dea8-4397-9963-45c93d1c14c7@att.net> <50c82b03-8aa1-492c-9af3-4cf2673d6516@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 04 Dec 2024 10:00:09 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="af556ed33a2938584eabc358176a3edc"; logging-data="819626"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18R1HRki5fjAJKcCyAP/rcqPbin9t3ZX04=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:p3RTsViT+x7b6bSJh3D8cZsZU3A= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <50c82b03-8aa1-492c-9af3-4cf2673d6516@att.net> Bytes: 2407 On 03.12.2024 21:34, Jim Burns wrote: > On 12/3/2024 8:02 AM, WM wrote: >> E(1)∩E(2)∩...∩E(n) = E(n). >> Sequences which are identical in every term >> have identical limits. > > An empty intersection does not require >  an empty end.segment. A set of non-empty endsegments has a non-empty intersection. The reason is inclusion-monotony. Regards, WM