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 (extra-ordinary, effectively) Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 12:01:01 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <3d2fe306aa299bc78e94c14dadd21645d8db9829@i2pn2.org> <2163aa0c0efba66c813e8ebda5ef5ece6d19ea34@i2pn2.org> <4d797c9134ea480aa4976cf866cacaede8d309bd@i2pn2.org> <1e8ebc58a12fd659e38d0b9f0ff6fc0194f933be@i2pn2.org> <9a25e92033e0a4d24e9c27df0de95d8b033d0862@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2025 12:01:01 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2119836"; 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: 2874 Lines: 22 Am Sun, 05 Jan 2025 11:31:01 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 04.01.2025 11:59, joes wrote: >> Am Sat, 04 Jan 2025 09:52:08 +0100 schrieb WM: >>> On 04.01.2025 05:06, Richard Damon wrote: >>>> On 1/3/25 12:15 PM, WM wrote: >>> >>>>> Every union of FISONs which stay below a certain threshold stays >>>>> below that threshold. >>>> Every union of a finite number of FISONs is just an admssion that you >>>> can't do the actual union of *ALL* FISONs. >>> For all FISONs:|ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n}| = ℵo. >> But not for the union. > What should make the union larger than all FISONs? Whatever do you mean? The union is of course larger than every single FISON, because there are infinitely many. > Every union of FISONs which stay below a certain threshold stays belown > that threshold. The union of all of them doesn't stay below any threshold. -- 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.