Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: "Chris M. Thomasson" Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2024 16:31:21 -0800 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 16 Message-ID: References: <3fe6ef31f562e0ddf598de46cf864986ca909687@i2pn2.org> <9cb8aec671200bb6d71582fd607b876b7ec4c83a@i2pn2.org> <40292abc147fee5a7bdd264b69d34ddf2061e59d@i2pn2.org> <0bc3cdc8c096bba16decd94ad2af85d35da9b7b4@i2pn2.org> <9896cb31-806b-40a2-a03e-dc4aea744d04@att.net> <298a18e0-a0c6-4db2-901d-da255ecace0b@tha.de> <0b2e9a84-f5b3-4f02-8f78-7781da9175af@att.net> <47ccedfd-7c29-4c1a-a411-bbb0c27726e8@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 01:31:21 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="f777e730b2e8168ebcdb2932c05660c1"; logging-data="3803189"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+T6lJrxK+OLiq3PKd4erIIwGVTYRZ1tSI=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:dPrKz5FzlIrL7rdHdrlVfnM3r1I= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2458 On 12/1/2024 9:49 PM, Moebius wrote: > Am 02.12.2024 um 00:19 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson: > >> Infinite[ly many] finite sets:   <<<  [!] >> >> { { 1 }, { 1, 2 }, { 1, 2, 3 }, { 1, 2, 3, 4 }, ... } >> >> ? > > In fact, in axiomatic set theory (due to von Neumann): > >     IN = {{}, {0}, {0, 1}, {0, 1, 2}, ...} > > where 0 = {}, 1 = {0}, 2 = {0, 1}, ... etc. In general: n+1 = {0, ..., n}. Indeed. Thanks again!