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Paradox

Post by Pigeon » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:28 am

Interesting number paradox

The first number that can be considered "dull" rather than "interesting" becomes interesting because of that fact.

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Re: Paradox

Post by Egg » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:30 am

HA! What's a dull number?


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Re: Paradox

Post by Pigeon » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:43 am

Assume that you have a non-empty set of natural numbers that are not interesting. Due to the well-ordered property of the natural numbers, there must be some smallest number in the set of uninteresting numbers. Being the smallest number of a set one might consider not interesting makes that number interesting after all: a contradiction.


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Re: Paradox

Post by IndicusMaximus » Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:57 am

i'm dead now. my face just exploded.
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they will see God.

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