Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:30:58 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <87frn50zjp.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87y10vzo35.fsf@bsb.me.uk> <87ser3zgez.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2024 13:30:58 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1539819"; 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: 2305 Lines: 11 Am Thu, 05 Dec 2024 17:04:58 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 05.12.2024 13:56, joes wrote: >> Am Thu, 05 Dec 2024 12:42:17 +0100 schrieb WM: > >>> But every number you can take belongs to a vanishing subset of ℕ. >> What does that have to do with the ability to be "chosen"? > It is impossible to choose a number outside of a tiny subset. Duh. There are no other numbers. -- 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.