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Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways to resolve the paradox: 1. Reject the intuitive definition of "interesting"ness as being ill-formed. We need an
by puzzledobserver 4y ago
Off the top of my head, I can think of two ways to resolve the paradox:
1. Reject the intuitive definition of "interesting"ness as being ill-formed. We need an objective definition non-self-referential definition of the word interesting.
2. Accept that there are interesting or uninteresting numbers, but their status as objects of interest is tied to a specific time. For example, 1729 might have been an uninteresting number until the conversation between Ramanujan and Hardy. Several of the examples on the Wikipedia page have such temporal limits on when they were / were not interesting.