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We will finally be able to answer humanity's most pressing question: what is the smallest uninteresting positive integer?
by michaelochurch 15y ago
We will finally be able to answer humanity's most pressing question: what is the smallest uninteresting positive integer?
- alexchamberlain 15y agoI hope you know the answer to this?
- yahelc 15y ago223. EDIT: 219 is definitely smaller than 223.
- burgerbrain 15y ago219 Edit: on the other hand, in the math category "219 is the smallest number that can be represented as a sum of four positive cubes in two different ways."
- michaelochurch 15y ago223 is a US date-prime. 2 and 23 is prime, and so is 223. That may be a stretch, but it qualifies as something interesting.
- rflrob 15y agoIt's an API, so I have this code running now: for i in xrange(10000): print i trivia = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d' % i).text math = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d/math' % i).text if 'boring' in math and ('plain' in trivia or 'boring' in trivia): print math, trivia break time.sleep(2)
- drostie 15y agohttp://numbersapi.com/1321/trivia http://numbersapi.com/1321/trivia has given me both "1321 is a most unremarkable number" and "1321 is an uninteresting number", to give an upper bound. ;-)
- vyrotek 15y agowhat is the smallest uninteresting positive integer? Doesn't discovering that unique number instantly make it interesting? :)
- ewoutkleinsmann 15y agoSome will argue that such a number doesn't exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox). Others say it is 11630 (http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/2009/06/11630-is-the-first-uninteresting-number/ http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/2009/06/11630-is-the-first-...)