Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary, effectively) Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 12:50:37 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <45a632ed-26cc-4730-a8dd-1e504d6df549@att.net> <3d2fe306aa299bc78e94c14dadd21645d8db9829@i2pn2.org> <2163aa0c0efba66c813e8ebda5ef5ece6d19ea34@i2pn2.org> <4d797c9134ea480aa4976cf866cacaede8d309bd@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Thu, 02 Jan 2025 12:50:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="a3e4916d82901f495981bca5b3dfcc34"; logging-data="3504185"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+3RSUtz8RfVkR8wLd6ftZXlWYiY6iD70Y=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:U6tnIsanX4fIJJ0N3wxYPlxaWjY= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <4d797c9134ea480aa4976cf866cacaede8d309bd@i2pn2.org> Bytes: 2684 On 01.01.2025 14:51, joes wrote: > Am Tue, 31 Dec 2024 19:05:24 +0100 schrieb WM: >> I don't stop but know that every FISON is finite as its name says and >> covers at most 1 % of ℕ. > Yes, you stop at some finite threshold. Go farther. Find a FISON that is not below 1 %. > >> You cannot find a natural number that isn't in a FISON. But there must >> be more because FISONs cover less than 1 % of ℕ. > No??? There are infinitely many of them, and together they form N. Stupid belief. Every union of FISONs which stay below a certain threshold stays below that threshold. Regards, WM