Path: eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED.71.161.203.123!not-for-mail From: FromTheRafters Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Thu, 05 Dec 2024 08:40:09 -0500 Organization: Peripheral Visions Lines: 17 Message-ID: References: <87frn50zjp.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87y10vzo35.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87ser3zgez.fsf@bsb.me.uk> Reply-To: erratic.howard@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 5 Dec 2024 13:40:15 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="71.161.203.123"; logging-data="1730762"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org" X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 1701145376 WM used his keyboard to write : > On 05.12.2024 11:53, joes wrote: >> Am Thu, 05 Dec 2024 09:54:11 +0100 schrieb WM: >>> On 04.12.2024 20:59, Chris M. Thomasson wrote: >>> >>>> Not sure why WM thinks that Cantor Pairing does not work with any >>>> natural number... I think I am not misunderstanding WM here. >>> Take any natnumber you can. Almost all natnumbers are following. >>> Infinitely many of them cannot be "taken" or "given" and cannot be >>> proven to be in any mapping. But Cantor claims that all without any >>> exception can be taken. >> Yes, of course they can? Why shouldn't they? What does it mean to you? >> > All means all with no exception. But every number you can take belongs to a > vanishing subset of ℕ. What do you mean by vanishing?