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I love how the article starts with the most boring facts about 1729: > 1729 is the natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730.
by pixelpoet 7y ago
I love how the article starts with the most boring facts about 1729:
> 1729 is the natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730.
- russellbeattie 7y agoHeh. I've been reading HN for long enough to never be surprised by the capability of incredibly pedantic people to be incredibly pedantic.
- JoeAltmaier 7y agoWe had to have a home somewhere :) And this is it.
- wwweston 7y agoIf a fact is the most boring[0], though, certainly that's something notable and therefore interesting about it. Therefore, these are not the most boring facts about 1729. ;) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
- mkl 7y agoWell, that shows there is no most boring fact, but I think it doesn't preclude a the existence of a set of most boring facts, with none more boring than all the others. Yes, that is an interesting feature of the facts in the set, but does it mean that they are all necessarily more boring than every fact outside the set?