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▸ noun: (mathematics) 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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▸ noun: (mathematics) 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.
Similar:
two envelopes problem,
Two capacitor paradox,
Berkson's paradox,
Burali-Forti paradox,
Skolem's paradox,
Irresistible force paradox,
Crocodile dilemma,
Galileo's paradox,
Paradoxes of material implication,
Fredkin's paradox,
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