Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!i2pn.org!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: joes Newsgroups: sci.math Subject: Re: Incompleteness of Cantor's enumeration of the rational numbers (extra-ordinary) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:42:02 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <5d6fc2087a5a3158b89a63bfc4c57468bd1c4fcd@i2pn2.org> References: <53d93728-3442-4198-be92-5c9abe8a0a72@att.net> <9c18a839-9ab4-4778-84f2-481c77444254@att.net> <8ef20494f573dc131234363177017bf9d6b647ee@i2pn2.org> <66868399-5c4b-4816-9a0c-369aaa824553@att.net> <412770ca-7386-403f-b7c2-61f671d8a667@att.net> <752478087f5326d955ca3ffac4e248d4f50b3ff3@i2pn2.org> <3d37c28e07a44eaae8b450a7b19efd07e2afb8bc@i2pn2.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:42:02 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="2904003"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="nS1KMHaUuWOnF/ukOJzx6Ssd8y16q9UPs1GZ+I3D0CM"; User-Agent: Pan/0.145 (Duplicitous mercenary valetism; d7e168a git.gnome.org/pan2) X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Am Fri, 10 Jan 2025 22:44:31 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 10.01.2025 21:30, joes wrote: >> Am Thu, 09 Jan 2025 23:39:21 +0100 schrieb WM: >>> On 09.01.2025 22:22, joes wrote: >>>> Am Thu, 09 Jan 2025 10:30:25 +0100 schrieb WM: >>>>> On 09.01.2025 00:42, joes wrote: >>>>>> Am Wed, 08 Jan 2025 15:35:44 +0100 schrieb WM: >>>>> >>>>>>> A set like ℕ has a fixed number of elements. If ω-1 does not >>>>>>> exist, >>>>>>> what is the fixed border of existence? >>>>>> It has an infinite number of elements, and that number happens to >>>>>> be invariant under finite subtraction/addition. >> >>>>> That implies the impossibility to extract all elements of contents >>>>> in order to apply them as indices. >>>> No, you just need "extract/apply" infinitely many, >>> which means all natural numbers. Not even one must be missing from the >>> set of indices. >> In particular it means there is no largest one. > Relevant is only that none remains outside of the set of indices. It > would make the set finite. > >>>>> That destroys Cantor's approach. His sequences do not exist: >>>>> "thus we get the epitome (ω) of all real algebraic numbers [...] and >>>>> with respect to this order we can talk about the nth algebraic >>>>> number where not a single one of this epitome (ω) has been >>>>> forgotten." [E. Zermelo: "Georg Cantor – Gesammelte Abhandlungen >>>>> mathematischen und philosophischen Inhalts", Springer, Berlin (1932) >>>>> p. 116] >>>> What does this have to do with Aleph_0? >>> It means that no limits are involved but that all not yet used content >>> of endsegments must become indices. Not all endsegments can be >>> infinite. >> Yes they can, because there are an infinity of them. > That is wrong. Infinitely many of them can only exist when no natural > natural number is missing an an index. The naturals *are* the indices of the sequence. And it is infinite. > Therefore none can remain in the > content. Therefore your argument is fools crap. The limit is indeed empty. -- Am Sat, 20 Jul 2024 12:35:31 +0000 schrieb WM in sci.math: It is not guaranteed that n+1 exists for every n.