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: Re: The existence of dark numbers proved by the thinned out harmonic series. Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:48:25 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 19 Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 09:48:27 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6fd1525452fd9eda1a42aea508eebf43"; logging-data="2233989"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/zBGR96nQ/b8fhQ+mpR4IT3bV9kGVDjNg=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:UAMw9wE50RrKkVOJ1OK0ZjuE8sw= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2491 On 17.03.2025 18:49, FromTheRafters wrote: > on 3/17/2025, WM supposed : >>> 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. > > I don't know what you expect to achieve along these lines, It is simple: All definable digit sequences can be split off. Only dark terms remain and make the series diverging. Regards, WM