Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!i2pn.org!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, 29 Dec 2024 21:27:31 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: References: <8d69d6cd-76bc-4dc1-894e-709d044e68a1@att.net> <7356267c-491b-45c2-b86a-d40c45dfa40c@att.net> <4bf8a77e-4b2a-471f-9075-0b063098153f@att.net> <31180d7e-1c2b-4e2b-b8d6-e3e62f05da43@att.net> <45a632ed-26cc-4730-a8dd-1e504d6df549@att.net> <3d2fe306aa299bc78e94c14dadd21645d8db9829@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 29 Dec 2024 21:27:31 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="987681"; 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: 2999 Lines: 21 Am Sun, 29 Dec 2024 11:39:22 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 28.12.2024 18:48, joes wrote: >> Am Sat, 28 Dec 2024 17:50:49 +0100 schrieb WM: > >>> A good example is the set of FISONs. Every FISON contains only a >>> negligible quantity of natural numbers. A generous estimation is: >>> Every FISON contains less than 1 % of all natural numbers. There is no >>> FISON that contains more than 1 %. Therefore the union of all FISONs >>> contains less than 1 % of all natural numbers. Outside of the union of >>> FISONs are almost all natural numbers. >> A relative size is useless because it is still exactly as infinite, >> i.e. countable. You seem to think there are only finitely many naturals >> and therefore FISes. Of course, if you only consider fin. many, you >> don’t have all. > A relative size is very useful in order to correct the fantasy claim > that the union of all FISONs covers the infinite gap between all FISONs > and ω. There is no gap. -- 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.