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number stumble

bogwalrus · 2009-02-19 01:30:07

i stunbled on this and though some of you might like it. There is a few numbers he needs help with http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

19-02-2009 1:30am

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i stunbled on this and though some of you might like it.

There is a few numbers he needs help with

http://www.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html

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#2 20-02-2009 10:58am

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i cant believe he actually put up my one for 747 lol. (i feel smart now but know quite well that is untrue)

Can anyone guess what i emailed him for the number 747?

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#3 22-02-2009 9:06pm

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It's well known that all the whole positive numbers have some special property.

Consider the set of whole positive numbers. Let S be the set of non-special numbers. S is bounded below by zero, so it must have some smallest element S_min. But, S_min is the smallest non-special number, so therefore it is special, which gives a contradition. Therefore S has no minimum element. We conclude that S is the empty set and all numbers are special!

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