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From: merlyn@sequent.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.math,net.news.group
Subject: Re: Interesting Numbers
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Date: Mon, 14-May-84 13:24:49 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 14 13:24:49 1984
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How about creating "net.math.interesting" for all this discussion of
interesting numbers?  It's grown to be quite a topic of its own... I mean
people could post the results of discovering that 2^27-3 is an interesting
number because of property X, and so on.

[What's the largest interesting number found, by the way?]

Of course, for those of us that discover absolutely uninteresting numbers,
regardless of all those proofs, we could post those to net.math.uninteresting
(net.math.boring?), and then see if anyone comes up with a property Y that
makes that number really interesting (especially those people that say
that EVERY number is interesting... they should work the hardest to keep
their proof true!)

As a challenge, my first uninteresting number is
	226382
Tell me what's so interesting about that number!  I think that this number
is particularly boring.

-- A particularly personal and original observation from the thought-stream of
Randal L. ("tongue-firmly-in-cheek") Schwartz, esq. (merlyn@sequent.UUCP)
	(Official Legendary Sorcerer of the 1984 Summer Olympics)
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