Path: ...!eternal-september.org!feeder2.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: FromTheRafters Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 06:07:51 -0500 Organization: Peripheral Visions Lines: 18 Message-ID: References: <094dadad718eaa3827ad225d54aaa45b880dd821@i2pn2.org> <3399a95e386bc5864f1cfcfc9f91f48366e0fed2@i2pn2.org> <0d551828411c0588000796fa107a16b1e23a866c@i2pn2.org> <74bdc0f14fd0f2c6bfd9ac511a37f66b41948ac4@i2pn2.org> Reply-To: erratic.howard@gmail.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 12:07:53 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6c3c264b74667953d3455826fbb655db"; logging-data="2330941"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/r83THLb8hVBsLoHL7GtdR7N5MhyZSKN4=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:i5J3pfKrVDZdO90i33UElMr/H0U= X-Newsreader: MesNews/1.08.06.00-gb X-ICQ: 1701145376 Bytes: 2637 on 11/23/2024, WM supposed : > On 23.11.2024 22:07, FromTheRafters wrote: >> WM wrote : > >>> A bijection between natural numbers and prime numbers proves that for >>> every prime number there is a natural number: p_1, p_2, p_3, ... >>> If that is correct, then there are as many natural numbers as prime >>> numbers and as many prime numbers as natural numbers. Then the following >>> scenario is possible: >>> >>> Cover the unit intervals of prime numbers by red hats. Then shift the red >>> hats so that all unit intervals of the positive real axis get red hats. >> >> What makes you think that that follows? > > Cantor. Show me Cantor shifting interval hats!