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Interesting whole number paradox

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(thing) by ariels (5.3 d) (print)   ?   (I like it!) Sat May 13 2000 at 8:14:08

We all know some natural numbers are "interesting". For instance, 3 is the first prime number participating in a pair of twin primes, 13 is the unlucky number, etc.

Now consider the "smallest uninteresting number", S. S is probably a really huge number, but surely exists (or there would be no interesting numbers, since if everything's interesting, nothing is)! But this in itself is interesting -- S is the smallest number which isn't interesting! Wouldn't you like to know more about it?

In particular, S is interesting...

Yes, this is YALP.


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