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From: WM <wolfgang.mueckenheim@tha.de>
Newsgroups: sci.math
Subject: Re: The non-existence of "dark numbers"
Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2025 05:58:12 +0100
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On 17.03.2025 05:23, Jim Burns wrote:
> On 3/16/2025 6:22 PM, WM wrote:
>> On 16.03.2025 20:41, Jim Burns wrote:
>>> On 3/16/2025 3:27 PM, WM wrote:
> 
>>>> The question here is
>>>> the index of the first disappearance of Bob.
>>>
>>> The answer requires you to know what 'finite' means.
>>
>> Answer using your definition of
>> finite index or finite natural number.
> 
> You misunderstand.
> 
> I don't need to find out what 'finite' means.

Then apply your version of "finite" and answer at which finite index the 
first loss in lossless exchange happens.
> 
> Do you (WM) know what 'finite' means?

Yes, it means the index is a natural number.

> Whatever.
> The result is the same: I can't tell you (WM).

If you can't tell me the number, then it is not existing, or your claim 
to know all natural numbers is wrong.
> 
> Not 'won't', 'can't'.
> I try and the answer doesn't reach you.

Simply give the number.
> 
> Bob disappears from a superovine set ==

He disappears from the matrix. In your opinion this matrix is countable. 
Every exchange has an index.

Regards, WM