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Countability from vanishing averages of distinct sequences

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If every sequence of distinct elements of a positive-real set A has arithmetic averages tending to zero, then A is a countable set. For each positive integer n, the threshold set {a∈A:a≥1/n} must be finite: an infinite sequence inside it would have averages at least 1/n. The Archimedean property makes A their union, so the countable union of countable sets theorem applies. The hypothesis concerns every distinct-element sequence, not merely one enumeration.

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