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Interesting number paradox - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia On the smallest non-interesting number The interesting number paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". The paradox states that every natural number is interesting. [ 1 ] The " proof " is by contradiction : if there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there would be a smallest uninteresting number – but the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uni
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