136 sats \ 2 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Aug \ on: Interesting number paradox charts_and_numbers
I never really considered this a paradox, though, because what is inherently paradoxical about all natural numbers being interesting? Every number is unique, after all, being the one and only product of its primes.
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31 sats \ 1 reply \ @south_korea_ln OP 28 Aug
Yeah, i agree. It's not to be taken too seriously. It starts from one's definition of a subjective concept of interestingness.
Just a fun example of a proof by contradiction.
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21 sats \ 0 replies \ @SimpleStacker 28 Aug
Oh, yeah, I know it's all meant to be fun.
Another fun corollary of this Proof of Interestingness is that it can also be used to prove that every human being is interesting, because if there were any non-interesting humans, then there will be a shortest and a tallest human in the set of non-interesting humans, which makes them interesting.
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