Sujet : Re: Does the number of nines increase?
De : invalid (at) *nospam* example.invalid (Moebius)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 16. Jul 2024, 02:57:42
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Am 16.07.2024 um 03:49 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
On 7/15/2024 6:47 PM, Moebius wrote:
Am 16.07.2024 um 03:32 schrieb Chris M. Thomasson:
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going left to right, so to speak, [...]
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1/1, 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, ...
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Nope, here you are going "from right to left" (on the real line).
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You see, 1/1 is larger than, say, 1/2, hence on "the real line" 1/1 is RIGHT from 1/2. No?
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Hint:
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... | ... | ... | ... (real line)
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0 1/2 1/1 (=1)
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Huh? WM is backwards?
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Actually, not. :-)
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Actually, my real line is, say
...-1...0...+1...
Seems poor. :-P
Let's fill in some unit fractions (at least 1/2). :-)
...| ... | ... | ... | ... (real line)
-1 0 1/2 1/1 (=1)
So, left to right with origin at zero [...] the natural numbers, starting at zero the origin of the real line:
0, 1, 2, 3, 4, ...
Right. But ALL unit fractions are between 0 and 1 (incl.). :-)
0 is at origin point on my real line, the x axis so to speak. It has an origin at 0. Fair enough?
Sure. Why do you ask? :-P
Left of zero, or origin if you will, is negative, right of zero is positive...
Yeah.
And between 0 and 1 (=1/1) there are the unit fractions 1/2, 1/3, ...:
0 < ... < 1/3 < 1/2 < 1/1 .
See? :-P