Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:46:41 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <244b3e8e460c67e32d8b4d57670e4f881c1ac716@i2pn2.org> References: <276fc9df-619b-4a10-b414-a04a74aa7378@att.net> <88e6a631-417a-4dd0-9443-a57116dcbd28@att.net> <7a1e34df-ffee-4d30-ae8c-2af5bcb1d932@att.net> <6a90a2e2-a4fa-4a8d-83e9-2e451fa8dd51@att.net> <0e5fb47d-60f7-42bb-beec-4a9661c807da@tha.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 20:46:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="350486"; 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: 2857 Lines: 22 Am Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:28:15 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 31.10.2024 12:36, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 10/30/24 7:53 AM, WM wrote: > >>> NUF(0) = 0, NUF(1) = ℵo. Therefore NUF must grow but cannot grow by >>> more than 1 at any point x of the real axis. >> Because it grows BETWEEN points on the real axis from 0 to ℵo. > I investigate its behaviour at single points. At single points a function has a single value, not a jump. In the case of NUF, that value is infinite everywhere except at 0. >> Your problem is there isn't a "first" x > 0 above 0 to see it increase > We do not see dark numbers but I can prove their existence Like all your non-questions, this is not about UFs but rather the continuity of the reals. >> so it can just jump to ℵo. > But it cannot do so at a single point. See above. -- 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.