The interesting number paradox is a humorous paradox which arises from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting"...
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and basement. Interesting number paradox: The first number that can be considered "dull" rather than "interesting" becomes interesting because of that...
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The unexpected hanging paradox or surprise test paradox is a paradox about a person's expectations about the timing of a future event which they are told...
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List of numbers (category Number-related lists)
smallest "uninteresting" number is paradoxically interesting for that very property. This is known as the interesting number paradox. The definition of what...
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and set theory. Thought experiments can also yield interesting paradoxes. The grandfather paradox, for example, would arise if a time traveler were to...
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for the number 39 largely consists of a joke involving the interesting number paradox: 39 This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of...
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partners have had (on the average) a greater number of sexual partners than they have. The friendship paradox is an example of how network structure can...
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In mathematical logic, Russell's paradox (also known as Russell's antinomy) is a set-theoretic paradox published by the British philosopher and mathematician...
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natural number without interesting properties acquires an interesting property by this very lack of any interesting properties. (F) A loan of the Paradox of...
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A Killer Paradox (Korean: 살인자ㅇ난감) is a 2024 South Korean crime thriller dark comedy television series written by Kim Da-min, directed by Lee Chang-hee...
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Birthday problem (redirect from Birthday Paradox)
paradox is the counterintuitive fact that only 23 people are needed for that probability to exceed 50%. The birthday paradox is a veridical paradox:...
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The gender-equality paradox is the finding that various gender differences in personality and occupational choice are larger in more gender equal countries...
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From Zero to Infinity (category Elementary number theory)
sets was added in the second edition, replacing a section on the interesting number paradox. Later editions of the book were "thoroughly updated" by Reid;...
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Parrondo's paradox, a paradox in game theory, describes how a combination of losing strategies can become a winning strategy. It is named after its creator...
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Crusader Kings III (category Paradox Interactive games)
video game set in the Middle Ages, developed by Paradox Development Studio and published by Paradox Interactive as a sequel to Crusader Kings (2004)...
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In fluid dynamics, d'Alembert's paradox (or the hydrodynamic paradox) is a paradox discovered in 1752 by French mathematician Jean le Rond d'Alembert....
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The paradoxes of Zeno of Elea depend in part on the uncertain interpretation of 0. (The ancient Greeks even questioned whether 1 was a number.) The...
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Supertask (redirect from Benardete's paradox)
decision problems Paradoxes of set theory Transcomputational problem – Class of computational problems Transfinite number – Number that is larger than...
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Curious and Interesting Numbers London: Penguin Group. (1987): 134 Wikimedia Commons has media related to 108 (number). The Significance of the number 108 Meaning...
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Schwarz lantern (redirect from Schwarz paradox)
ISBN 978-3-540-11658-5. MR 2724360. Atneosen, Gail H. (March 1972). "The Schwarz paradox: An interesting problem for the first-year calculus student". The Mathematics Teacher...
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any standard natural number (Raatikainen 2020, Franzén 2005, p. 135). Gödel specifically cites Richard's paradox and the liar paradox as semantical analogues...
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(which the doomsday argument calculates at around 95% likely). The interesting paradox is that the Doomsday argument is probably wrong even assuming it...
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Cities in Motion (category Paradox Interactive games)
business simulation game developed by Colossal Order and published by Paradox Interactive. The goal of the game is to implement and improve the public...
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Quantitative structure–activity relationship (redirect from QSAR paradox)
data very closely but perform poorly when applied to new data. The SAR paradox refers to the fact that it is not the case that all similar molecules have...
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it affords a rather surprising alternative solution to the Burali-Forti paradox of the largest ordinal). Rather than defining an ordinal as an equivalence...
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The Antares Paradox (Spanish: La paradoja de Antares) is a 2022 Spanish science-fiction drama film directed, written, and lensed by Luis Tinoco in his...
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Quantum entanglement (section Paradox)
to be anticlockwise. However, this behavior gives rise to seemingly paradoxical effects: any measurement of a particle's properties results in an apparent...
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twentieth century in order to formulate a theory of sets free of paradoxes such as Russell's paradox. Today, Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory, with the historically...
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are often also the source of contradictions like Russell's paradox and Richard's paradox.: 27 Cantor considered the set T of all infinite sequences...
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