Interesting number paradox
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title:
Interesting number paradox
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The interesting number paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states that every natural number is interesting. The "proof" is by contradiction: if there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number, thus producing a contr
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On the smallest non-interesting number
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
date created:
2004-03-05T17:40:57Z
date modified:
2024-08-27T04:41:13Z
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