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: 2N=E Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2024 12:23:30 -0700 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 15 Message-ID: References: <5b701e07-18aa-42ab-964b-0ca84e1776ca@att.net> <40b398d1-40c5-45e9-8615-1cf437af0185@att.net> <3537899e-e951-4138-b56c-fc76340762b8@att.net> <8b31df46-1361-4dd1-aed3-1f42039af960@att.net> <84c1bb5d-67db-4d21-918a-f86cd1f815c5@att.net> <725d3aed-1de6-48e9-97a4-fe861ce58a6f@att.net> <470a5a63-4d1d-402d-bbc8-b5fc8ea299c1@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2024 20:23:31 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="90fb2e9a8bd9eb8559a2c7d98d3e58f4"; logging-data="3549307"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+HFpZq/W91MeNL8GotZenhWJzxv/YOJyU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ZM1Eapfb/I0sHgQeU9QtYsax7yM= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2365 On 11/1/2024 10:28 AM, WM wrote: > On 01.11.2024 15:02, Jim Burns wrote: > >> 'Infinity' does not mean what you want it to mean. > > Infinity can have two meanings. I have no preference. It's either infinite or not. > But if the meaning of invariable sets is used, then every doubling will > produce numbers larger than all doubled elements of the set.