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Sunday, November 19, 2006

All natural numbers are special

From the department of too-geeky-joke-to-be-funny comes the following one:

All natural numbers are special:

0 is special because it is the first natural number
1 is special because it is the neutral element for multiplication
2 is special because it is the first even number
3 is special because it is the first odd prime number
lets suppose that there exists a non-empty set of non-special natural numbers
we can take the minimum of this set - but this number is special because it is the smallest non-special number
QED :)

(Original source - in Romanian)

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