Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:08:54 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <883377b7ebbd9d5d528db048daf9f682e3854ae8@i2pn2.org> References: <97304048-24f5-4625-82a7-d17427f2f6e3@att.net> <65febd06-662b-4fa4-9aa8-f7353a79a110@att.net> <157a949d-6c19-4693-8cee-9e067268ae45@att.net> <8165b44b-1ba5-429d-8317-0b043b214b53@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2024 19:08:54 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2872407"; 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: 3264 Lines: 34 Am Sun, 17 Nov 2024 18:38:00 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 17.11.2024 17:59, FromTheRafters wrote: >> WM pretended : >>> On 17.11.2024 12:38, FromTheRafters wrote: >>>> WM presented the following explanation : >>>>> On 17.11.2024 12:01, FromTheRafters wrote: >>>>>> WM was thinking very hard : >>>>>>> On 16.11.2024 22:33, Moebius wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>> For example "aleph_0 - aleph_0" is not defined. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Small wonder. ℵo means only infinitely many: |ℕ|, |ℚ|, and many >>>>>>> others. |ℕ|-|ℕ| however is defined. >>>>>> >>>>>> No, it is not. >>>>> >>>>> If sets are invariable then ℕ \ ℕ is empty. >>>>> If |ℕ| concerns only the elements of ℕ, then |ℕ|-|ℕ|= 0. >>>> >>>> So, you're saying that if I take aleph_zero natural numbers and I >>>> remove the aleph_zero odd numbers from consideration in a new set, I >>>> will have a new emptyset instead of E? >>> >>> Try to understand. "aleph_0 - aleph_0" is not defined. >> Try to understand that |N| equals aleph_zero. > > Of course. ℵo equals |ℕ|, equals |ℚ|, equals all countable sets. It is > simply another name for infinitely "many". |ℕ| however is a fixed > infinite number. Note that sets are invariable. Yes, those are all the same number. -- 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.