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: WM Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:39:11 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <5b8de1bc-9f6c-4dde-a7cd-9e22e8ce19d9@att.net> <31419fde-62b3-46f3-89f6-a48f1fe82bc0@att.net> <476ae6cb-1116-44b1-843e-4be90d594372@att.net> <27b8de9e-a17e-4116-ab5e-1e552bea0fce@att.net> <6d0d8060-fb60-4da6-bcdb-adc13a6179b0@att.net> <93c53518-55f8-4dca-aa3c-3e79ef268963@att.net> <9e03d68c-ae1e-4e2f-8004-55e6f89adb98@att.net> <96af151c-285d-4161-842a-63019cac9699@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 23 Nov 2024 22:39:11 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="186320aa941775fd2a6968ccefe1f452"; logging-data="1936315"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19OVoIwxvV9M8vkiO16NHDC7fWNAj2SWUE=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:NcUNvvWHW6qwsUF/RCkAVRqky4M= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <96af151c-285d-4161-842a-63019cac9699@att.net> Bytes: 2581 On 23.11.2024 22:20, Jim Burns wrote: > On 11/23/2024 12:23 PM, WM wrote: >> |E(k)| ≥ |E(k+1)| = |E(k)| - 1. > > E(k) ⊇ E(k+1) > |E(k)| ≥ |E(k+1)| >  doesn't contradict > |E(k)| ≤ |E(k+1)| It does. > > Together, > |E(k)| = |E(k+1)| > and > |E(k+1)| doesn't lose one number. Spare your nonsense. > |E(k)| = |E(k+1)| is infinite. The cardinality is an unsharp measure. > > ---- > Do you (WM) object to >  k ↦ k+1 : one.to.one I don't know what that waffle should mean. Regards, WM