Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: WM Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:12:46 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 29 Message-ID: References: <0d6d06a888e15ed2042aca8ec7e6ebb93590b7bc@i2pn2.org> <8a2aedd8383a84ceef2fd985ac0bf529e2a0eccf@i2pn2.org> <3fe6ef31f562e0ddf598de46cf864986ca909687@i2pn2.org> <9cb8aec671200bb6d71582fd607b876b7ec4c83a@i2pn2.org> <40292abc147fee5a7bdd264b69d34ddf2061e59d@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:12:47 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="4a3ebb53c8e2d0b0e6a6486b072857fe"; logging-data="4161975"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/MccsfNWEZnqDxQSc94TXdoKCNpygFgM0=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:Tf4BihDTKPK/AutRAHpbEqVWmdw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 3030 On 26.11.2024 18:50, Richard Damon wrote: > On 11/26/24 11:59 AM, WM wrote: >> On 26.11.2024 16:06, Richard Damon wrote: >>> On 11/26/24 6:24 AM, WM wrote: >>>> On 26.11.2024 12:15, FromTheRafters wrote: >>>>> WM pretended : >>>> >>>>>> It is impossible to change |ℕ| by 1 or more. >>>>> >>>>> Right, sets don't change. The set {2,3,4,...} does not equal the >>>>> set of natural numbers, but |{2,3,4,...}| does equal |N|. >>>>> >>>> Then your |N| is an imprecise measure. My |N| is precise. >>>> |{2,3,4,...}| = |N| - 1 =/= |N| . >> >>> Then your measure is incorrect, as by the DEFINITION of measures of >>> infinite sets, all countably infinite sets have the same "measure". >> >> That is one special definition of a very imprecise measure. We can do >> better. > > But maybe you can't and get something consistant. Of course. |{1, 2, 3, 4, ...}| = |ℕ| and |{2, 3, 4, ...}| = |ℕ| - 1 is consistent. Regards, WM