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What's Special About This Number?
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kirubakaran
on Jan 10, 2008
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te_platt
on Jan 10, 2008
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226 must not be special because it is the smallest number not on the list. I've always thought 226 was useless.
eru
on Jan 11, 2008
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So there's no uninteresting natural number. Because if there were some - there had to be a smallest uninteresting one. And cleary that would be an interesting property.
edw519
on Jan 10, 2008
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2 - the number of hands someone has too much time on
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