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: The existence of dark numbers proved by the thinned out harmonic series. Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:17:53 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 15:17:53 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="9cef19db4bca978d186c81723ea53376"; logging-data="287074"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18DXSy1BEiIt/BQcJsSRO4ETT488MYgcBU=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:R83lFiJUbKd5nR1OR33auwFXWkY= In-Reply-To: Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 3411 On 17.03.2025 11:51, FromTheRafters wrote: > WM presented the following explanation : >> On 17.03.2025 02:29, FromTheRafters wrote: >>> WM brought next idea : >> >>>> I informed you several times: >>>> ℕ \ {1, 2, 3, ...} = { } >>> >>> When two sets are the same set, the difference set is the empty set. >> >> When two sets are not the same set, the difference is not empty. This >> is the case when the set ℕ_def of all numbers which cannot empty ℕ, is >> subtracted from ℕ >> >> ℕ \ ℕ_def =/= { } > > That is false if N_def is the same as N True. >, which it is. False. > In fact, every > element in a set is "defined" or else you could not find out whether or > not it qualifies for set inclusion. ℕ is a set which is attained by the natural numbers. "Es ist sogar erlaubt, sich die neugeschaffene Zahl ω als Grenze zu denken, welcher die Zahlen ν zustreben, wenn darunter nichts anderes verstanden wird, als daß ω die erste ganze Zahl sein soll, welche auf alle Zahlen ν folgt, d. h. größer zu nennen ist als jede der Zahlen ν." E. Zermelo (ed.): "Georg Cantor – Gesammelte Abhandlungen mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts", Springer, Berlin (1932) p. 195. Let Google translate. > > You seem to think that there is N_def followed by a fairy dust of > undefined elements which get left behind after some small sequence of > finite members (FISON) are 'removed' from N (leaving fairy dust behind > as a set) instead of 'constructing' a new set from 'the elements of' the > set of naturals. So it is! Remember the harmonic series. It is infinite although all defined numbers are separately collected in converging subseries. Regards, WM