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: The set of necessary FISONs Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:28:35 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: References: <3844edd7-0750-4418-bff6-2759817446b3@att.net> <27377646-137a-4f8f-a7bb-a75707b2da96@att.net> <4d349964-211f-42f1-936f-81c22ae54cb5@att.net> <6e0c8ab2-402a-43a5-a348-0c727eae6a2e@att.net> <87e2e677c7802c9c17df6063f340cb5857d5700b@i2pn2.org> <680d4249c9bf1504231a53732ac5096184261495@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:28:37 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="08c317e2b969d34ea956904bc2a1b2b0"; logging-data="3689403"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18InRCemKcSQ4eK8Z1d7g+5RjXRS2uVB90=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:v0nHfPx1zZUXjYy1xpTLZ3+GB0Y= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3134 On 31.01.2025 12:31, joes wrote: > Am Thu, 30 Jan 2025 23:32:52 +0100 schrieb WM: >> On 30.01.2025 15:30, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 1/30/25 4:14 AM, WM wrote: >>>> On 29.01.2025 13:46, Richard Damon wrote: >>>> >>>>> We can in fact build an infinite set of infinite sets of FISONs whose >>>>> union is the set of Natural Numbers, >>>> >> If there is a set with U(F(n)) = ℕ, then it has a first element that is >> not completely useless. > Not necessarily. Necessarily, because otherwise all elements can be discarded. > A sufficient > set does not imply a necessary subset; If there is no first element necessary, then all can be discarded, and the rest is empty - not sufficient to yield U(F(n)) = ℕ. >> But all F(n) can be shown to be completely >> useless because infinitely many natnumbers are missing. > Again: every single one, or even an arbitrary finite number. > If you have inf. many segments, you obviously have inf. many > numbers. All finite natural numbers as well as all FISONs obey the Peano axioms. Removing all leaves nothing, in particular no sufficient set for U(F(n)) = ℕ. Regards, WM