Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Richard Damon Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary, effectively) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 14:47:41 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <2aefc2df43f7a5dfe9f7ba194adbc87ff9f586c1@i2pn2.org> References: <45a632ed-26cc-4730-a8dd-1e504d6df549@att.net> <3d2fe306aa299bc78e94c14dadd21645d8db9829@i2pn2.org> <2163aa0c0efba66c813e8ebda5ef5ece6d19ea34@i2pn2.org> <4441753d454842cfa2efde51b362ca5d36937a48@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 19:47:41 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1700256"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Bytes: 2683 Lines: 27 On 1/2/25 12:18 PM, WM wrote: > On 02.01.2025 14:22, Richard Damon wrote: >> On 1/2/25 6:36 AM, WM wrote: >>> On 01.01.2025 03:03, Richard Damon wrote: >>> >>>> Yes, SOME of the properties of the set come from properties of its >>>> members, >>> >>> What property does not? > >> Like being infinite. > > Mistake. An infinite set needs infinitely many elements. > > Regards, WM > Which it does. There are an infinite number of finite numbers. I guess you are admitting to your stupidity. (F you think there are only a finite number of Natural Numbers, then what is that number? What every you want to say, why is that + 1 a number, and thus there are more Natural Numbers then you think.