Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.quux.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: olcott Newsgroups: sci.logic Subject: Re: Simple enough for every reader? Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 18:12:38 -0500 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 34 Message-ID: <100dph6$17uss$1@dont-email.me> References: <100a8ah$ekoh$1@dont-email.me> <878qmt1qz6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 01:12:41 +0200 (CEST) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="54427c6633a8689b841d1d48a1b07f55"; logging-data="1309596"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1+qzZy4lnKzGHy7dWlXUsBm" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:y8Nvr9fKc68+Ua5XTZIVv15utRY= X-Antivirus: Norton (VPS 250518-4, 5/18/2025), Outbound message Content-Language: en-US In-Reply-To: <878qmt1qz6.fsf@bsb.me.uk> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean Bytes: 2069 On 5/18/2025 5:41 PM, Ben Bacarisse wrote: > WM writes: > >> Are you aware of the fact that in >> >> {1} >> {1, 2} >> {1, 2, 3} >> ... >> {1, 2, 3, ..., n} >> ... >> >> up to every n infinitely many natural numbers of the whole set >> >> {1, 2, 3, ...} >> >> are missing? Infinitely many of them will never be mentioned >> individually. They are dark. > > Presumably you are aware that for every n in ℕ, n will be mentioned in > infinitely many such sets? They are bathed in light. > > Do they still let you teach this stuff? > Clearly you do not understand that any action that takes an infinite amount of time will never be completed. There is always some n in ℕ that no one ever got around to mentioning. -- Copyright 2025 Olcott "Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see." Arthur Schopenhauer