Certainly, all natural numbers are interesting, but (it seems to me) they are not all equally interesting (or popular or useful or talked-about). So, there's no least-interesting number, but are there less-interesting numbers? Without trying to establish a hierarchy, are there numbers that, by having minimal membership in other groups, are less interesting? Kerry On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com>wrote:
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
-- Gene
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