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 non-existence of "dark numbers" Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:50:09 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <0dcd52f8-c0ca-4e41-bb47-3a4e689f103e@att.net> <578344c0-4d58-4dcb-8a89-988e3e60f9d7@att.net> <3a9f34ab-c270-4dfc-b23c-14741b68875b@att.net> <3af4ba5e-63c6-4145-966c-67c832e127bc@att.net> <0b8644b2-7027-420e-b187-8214daaf9e3b@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:50:10 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="05800b89d103ce6835834fcc839dfa75"; logging-data="1116387"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/Rhd3+C2XWS3MdtDwYV4jUVx2Nd6TCK+8=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:FlCqRMVWnoLF7xRJET09iF9ffps= Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: Bytes: 2632 On 20.03.2025 23:25, Jim Burns wrote: > On 3/20/2025 3:52 PM, WM wrote: On 20.03.2025 23:25, Jim Burns wrote: > On 3/20/2025 3:52 PM, WM wrote: > For sets not.having a WM.size, > Bob vanishing isn't a size.change. Only if reducing isn't reducing. > Our sets do not change. Only if changing isn't changing. >> But you claim that >> the set of O's shrinks from infinity to empty. > > I claim that > the set of X's and O's is the same size as > the set of X's, That leads to losses in lossless exchanges and therefore is incompatible with mathematics and with that logic which mathematics is based upon. Regards, WM