Numbers are not dull

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I just came across the Interesting Number Paradox.

"The interesting number paradox is a semi-humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify natural numbers as "interesting" or "dull". The paradox states that all natural numbers are interesting. The "proof" is by contradiction: if there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number, producing a contradiction."

Interesting.

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I remember the comedian Dave Gorman pointing this out to us during one of his shows :)