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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers
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Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2024 23:01:36 +0100
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On 17.12.2024 18:09, joes wrote:
> Am Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:30:46 +0100 schrieb WM:

>> An unbounded number can be subtracted individually.
> As long as it is finite.
> 
>> However, if all are
>> subtracted individually, then a last one is subtracted. That cannot
>> happen.
> Whatever do you mean by that? There is no last to inf.many. „All” are
> not finite.

But all can be subtracted collectively: |ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ...}| = 0.

Regards, WM