Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!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 17:29:29 -0500 Organization: Peripheral Visions Lines: 25 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, 05 Dec 2024 23:29:35 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="fd485c10c792450e6329c5a42bd0887d"; logging-data="1982866"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19qI5zLAhIm9Xdlp06hQAtSsxDp5spbAp8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:X++cSaMDikwdXgky5wWDDg4sxwM= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 1701145376 Bytes: 2852 WM presented the following explanation : > On 05.12.2024 17:50, FromTheRafters wrote: >> WM pretended : >>> On 05.12.2024 14:40, FromTheRafters wrote: >>>> WM used his keyboard to write : >>> >>>>> 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? >>> >>> The subset of numbers that can be taken is ℕ_def. It is smaller than >>> |ℕ|/k for every k ∈ ℕ. >>> >>> Have you meanwhile found an example for sequences with terms a_n = b_n for >>> every n but different limit? >> >> Why should I? > > Your answer to Identical sequences have the same limit: "Running with > buffaloes does not make one a buffalo" appeared to doubt my claim. Your example ignores the step-by-step dwindling aspect of the intersections of your infinite sequence of endsegments. It walks like a McDuck and talks like a McDuck.