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interesting number paradox

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.61 in modern English

Syllables
in-ter-est-ing num-ber -para-dox
IPA
39
Scrabble Score
24
Letters
7
Syllables
15
Unique Chars

Meaning

name

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.

Inflected Forms

the interesting number paradox (canonical)

Questions

What does interesting number paradox mean?
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.

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