Path: 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: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:30:27 +0100 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 30 Message-ID: References: <887b3762-34e3-400b-b234-f09ca9547266@att.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2025 20:30:27 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="6f9f26c81ac23d253c44dec1578e707c"; logging-data="1586136"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19AP75yhu42+GvWWPgCga4ORWUEJZzUk+g=" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Cancel-Lock: sha1:ChYdHMhO2SC6FbleUdsWPa5WHvQ= In-Reply-To: <887b3762-34e3-400b-b234-f09ca9547266@att.net> Content-Language: en-US On 19.03.2025 19:00, Jim Burns wrote: > On 3/19/2025 11:55 AM, WM wrote: >> Obviously >> the subtraction of the set of all FISONs which >> as single FISONs cannot empty Cantor's โ„• >> cannot empty Cantor's โ„•. > All the finite initial segments of โ‹‚๐’ซโฑโฟแตˆ(โ„•) > empty โ‹‚๐’ซโฑโฟแตˆ(โ„•) > โ‹‚๐’ซโฑโฟแตˆ(โ„•)\โ‹ƒ{F} = {} Of course the inductive subsets of โ„• are eqiuvalent. I use Cantor's โ„• which is larger than all its inductive subsets. > >> Obviously > > Please prove that it is obvious. For Cantor's โ„• we have: |โ„• \ {1}| = โ„ตo |โ„• \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n}| = โ„ตo ==> |โ„• \ {1, 2, 3, ..., n+1}| = โ„ตo All FISONs fail to empty โ„• when applied one after the other. All FISONs fail to empty โ„• when applied at once, because mathematics is not time-dependent. Regards, WM