Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary) Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2024 20:38:33 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <0e5fb47d-60f7-42bb-beec-4a9661c807da@tha.de> <244b3e8e460c67e32d8b4d57670e4f881c1ac716@i2pn2.org> <5218d7eda7d1b315aa52044986a171b9172cb856@i2pn2.org> <35349130b2ee846cfa7c4fd07576c47be58bae3a@i2pn2.org> <488abfa68c5ce1c17697b463db2176396e26a99e@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2024 04:38:54 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="57a3b663a8bb8d62220034d8bdd51a24"; logging-data="228365"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+lzuMYr0ol2KfY8mxgGbPvVoVh42SpLO8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:N154D5cDvu47YzJSNSFrgQaaXVo= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <488abfa68c5ce1c17697b463db2176396e26a99e@i2pn2.org> Bytes: 3276 On 11/2/2024 5:17 PM, Richard Damon wrote: > On 11/2/24 5:37 PM, WM wrote: >> On 02.11.2024 21:30, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 11/2/24 1:56 PM, WM wrote: >>>> On 02.11.2024 17:02, Richard Damon wrote: >>>>> On 11/2/24 6:23 AM, WM wrote: >>>> >>>>>> If NUF(x) has grown to ℵ₀ at x₀, then ℵ₀ unit fractions must be >>>>>> between 0 and x₀. Hence at least ℵ₀ points with ℵ₀ intervals of >>>>>> uncountably many points must be between 0 and x₀. That cannot >>>>>> happen at x₀ = 0. >>>>> >>>>> Right, NUF(x)is 0 at x - 0, and Aleph_0 at any x > 0, since as you >>>>> said, for any positive finite x, there are Aleph_0 unit fractions >>>>> below it. >>>> >>>> No, neither did I say so nor is it correct. Only for x > x₀ are ℵ₀ >>>> smaller unit fractions existing. >> >>> So, for what finite number x > 0 is there less than that? >> >> Those numbers are dark. > > But how are they even a number. > > You are just trying to assign "black magic" to you dark numbers to blaim > them for the things your logic can't handle. Gotta believe WM is magic? https://youtu.be/sl5bqHP0-KA?t=15 lol. [...]