Sujet : Re: How many different unit fractions are lessorequal than all unit fractions?
De : richard (at) *nospam* damon-family.org (Richard Damon)
Groupes : sci.mathDate : 30. Sep 2024, 12:04:09
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On 9/29/24 3:49 PM, WM wrote:
On 28.09.2024 00:08, FromTheRafters wrote:
> WM presented the following explanation :
>> Between two unit fractions there is always a finite gap.
>
> How big?
In terms of set theory: uncountably many points.
Regards, WM
As there are between any unit faction and zero.
And, a countable infinity of those are unit frzctions, so no unit fraction is the smallest.
Hoisted on your own petard.