Path: ...!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: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:24:51 +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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 17:24:50 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="56fd42f3dbe31aee8233c4a1d22ff497"; logging-data="756524"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/CLMcPEEm4KEqj73Osbds5fSZhsmc4HGw=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:CwCcJjND6TLNWXWvajdUQQ4CFck= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <27b8de9e-a17e-4116-ab5e-1e552bea0fce@att.net> Bytes: 2924 On 21.11.2024 16:39, Jim Burns wrote: > On 11/21/2024 5:21 AM, WM wrote: >> That means the function describing this, >> 1/10, 1/10, 1/10, ... >> has limit 1/10. >> That is the quotient of >> the infinity of black intervals and >> the infinity of all intervals. > > The Paradox of the Discontinuous Function > (not a paradox): It is a paradox that only 1/10 of the real line is covered for every finite interval (0, n] but all is covered completely in the limit. By what is it covered, after all n have been proved unable? > > lim.⟨ rc(1), rc(2), rc(3), ... ⟩  ≠ > rc( lim.⟨ 1, 2, 3, ... ⟩ ) > > You (WM) do not "believe in" > proper.superset.matching sets > discontinuous functions There is no reason to believe in magic. But if you do, then all Cantor-bijections can fail as well "in the infinite". Then mathematics is insufficient to determine limits. Regards, WM