"interesting number paradox" meaning in English

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Proper name

Forms: the interesting number paradox [canonical]
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  1. (mathematics) A humorous paradox arising from the attempt to classify every natural number as either "interesting" or "uninteresting". If there exists a non-empty set of uninteresting natural numbers, there must be a smallest uninteresting number, but this number is paradoxically interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number. Categories (topical): Mathematics
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