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interesting number paradox

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  1. A humorous paradox arising from the attempt to classify every natural number as either…

    A humorous paradox arising from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for interesting number paradox. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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