Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 beta 4/10/84; site seismo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!seismo!flinn From: flinn@seismo.UUCP (E. A. Flinn) Newsgroups: net.math Subject: Interesting Numbers Message-ID: <1215@seismo.UUCP> Date: Wed, 2-May-84 22:02:59 EDT Article-I.D.: seismo.1215 Posted: Wed May 2 22:02:59 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 03:00:30 EDT Distribution: net Organization: Center for Seismic Studies, Arlington, VA Lines: 5 The way I remember the proof that all numbers are interesting is: suppose that some numbers are uninteresting. There must then be a smallest uninteresting number - but that makes it an interesting number. And so of the rest.