Sujet : Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
De : james.g.burns (at) *nospam* att.net (Jim Burns)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 20. Sep 2024, 22:37:18
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On 9/20/2024 2:13 PM, WM wrote:
On 20.09.2024 05:35, Richard Damon wrote:
On 9/19/24 9:02 AM, WM wrote:
"always another" is potential infinity.
I am discussing actual infinity
where all are there at once
and no "always" is used.
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So, then how do you describe that fact that
there IS always another.
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The reason is that only
a potentially infinite collection of elements can be utilzed.
A finite.length claim can true about
each of arbitrarily.many elements.
⎛ How many right triangles is
⎜ "It is a right triangle" true about?
⎝ All of them, utilized or not.