Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions? (infinitary) Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:28:15 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 21 Message-ID: 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; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2024 18:28:16 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="b0fc6e4b59726e9ff37406b62d1d1e99"; logging-data="2937907"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19xYmSmeOwXi4UNh5ijS3osfxqnckCUZa4=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:V9P06oZq2LB+d2bUcvGdSjZEsxU= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2634 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. > > Your problem is there isn't a "first" x > 0 above 0 to see it increase > at, We do not see dark numbers but I can prove their existence by ∀n ∈ ℕ: 1/n - 1/(n+1) > 0. > so it can just jump to ℵo. But it cannot do so at a single point. Regards, WM