Path: ...!news.misty.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!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: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 14:17:21 -0500 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <15f183ae29abb8c09c0915ee3c8355634636da31@i2pn2.org> References: <4051acc5-d00a-40d2-8ef7-cf2b91ae75b6@att.net> <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> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2024 19:17:21 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="903703"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="diqKR1lalukngNWEqoq9/uFtbkm5U+w3w6FQ0yesrXg"; User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3368 Lines: 38 On 12/28/24 11:50 AM, WM wrote: > On 28.12.2024 15:12, Jim Burns wrote: >> On 12/27/2024 5:24 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: >>> On 12/27/2024 01:00 PM, Jim Burns wrote: >> >>>> [...] >>> >>> The, "almost all", or, "almost everywhere", >>> does _not_ equate to "all" or "everywhere", >> >> Correct. >> ⎛ In mathematics, the term "almost all" means >> ⎜ "all but a negligible quantity". >> ⎜ More precisely, if X is a set, >> ⎜ "almost all elements of X" means >> ⎜ "all elements of X but those in >> ⎜ a negligible subset of X". >> ⎜ The meaning of "negligible" depends on >> ⎜ the mathematical context; for instance, > > 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. > > Regards, WM > > Regards, WM > Just shows that you don't understand *AT ALL* about infinity. Every Natural Number is less that almost all other natural numbers, so its %-tile of progress is effectively 0, but together they make up the whole infinite set. The fact that you mind can't comprehend that just proves your stupidity.