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2016-02-20 03:18 am
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Numbers are not dull

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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2016-02-10 09:29 pm

Inverting a sphere

I cannot follow this. And it is killing me.
Can anyone actually?