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: The existence of dark numbers proved by the thinned out harmonic, series Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:46:28 -0000 (UTC) Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <16fcbca60f519f3020064956a8af9587ad1469af@i2pn2.org> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:46:28 -0000 (UTC) Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="748200"; 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 Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:41:41 +0100 schrieb WM: > On 18.03.2025 16:14, FromTheRafters wrote: >> After serious thinking WM wrote : >>> On 18.03.2025 13:18, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >>>> WM wrote: >>> >>>>> All elements of ℕ are there. That is the assumption. If no greatest >>>>> can be identified, then the reason are dark numbers. >>>> No, the reason is that there is no greatest element. >>> How can that be realizied? If all are there and all are smaller than >>> omega, then there is a greatest one >> That is just your intuition making you think that. Try mathematical >> thought. > Apply it and explain how a fixed set can be well-ordered striving for > omega but not reaching it. Why shouldn't it? It's infinite. -- 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.