Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Damon Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:55:56 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <29a5ba6b377b4d0830915bff47f2560dfbfb63da@i2pn2.org> References: <539edbdf516d69a3f1207687b802be7a86bd3b48@i2pn2.org> <75dbeab4f71dd695b4513627f185fcb27c2aaad1@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2024 23:55:57 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="3216529"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2292 Lines: 22 On 12/16/24 3:55 AM, WM wrote: > On 15.12.2024 22:14, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 12/15/24 2:29 PM, WM wrote: > >>> Next is a geometric property, in particular since the average >>> distance of intervals is infinitely larger than their sizes. > >> Not sure where you get that the "average" distance of intervals is >> infinitely larger than ther sizes. > > The accumulated size of all intervals is less than 3 over the infinite > length. Hence there is at least one location with a ratio oo between > distance to the interval and length of the interval. Start there with > the cursor. It will hit one next interval. Crash. > > Regards, WM Since none of the gaps are infinte, and none of the intervals are of 0 size, there is no "infinite" ratio of any gap to any interval. Your logic is just broken.