Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 15:57:06 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <4a810760-86a1-44bb-a191-28f70e0b361b@att.net> <23311c1a-1487-4ee4-a822-cd965bd024a0@att.net> <71758f338eb239b7419418f49dfd8177c59d778b@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 00:57:06 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f777e730b2e8168ebcdb2932c05660c1"; logging-data="3803189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/v+yhnDbDWBCfc6kgN4+4hRoElZZHbFc8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:gQlG+NN2iAtbDS47PWPwLOxCrqk= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2509 On 12/2/2024 3:56 PM, Moebius wrote: > Am 03.12.2024 um 00:51 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: >> On 12/1/2024 9:50 PM, Moebius wrote: >>> Am 02.12.2024 um 00:11 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: >>>> On 11/30/2024 3:12 AM, WM wrote: >>> >>>>> Finite initial segment[s]: F(n) = {1, 2, 3, ..., n}    (n e IN). >> [...] >> >> When WM writes: >> >> {1, 2, 3, ..., n} >> >> I think he might mean that n is somehow a largest natural number? > > Nope, he just means some n e IN. Okay. Thanks.