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Can a number be boring? (feat 14972)
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Uninteresting and boring numbers, with Dr Tony Padilla.
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With all due respect to 14972, 17087, 1121 and 2121
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@siprus

9 years ago

They should make list of numbers not on any list... oh wait.

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@nayutaito9421

8 years ago

OEIS has the sequence a(n)=n so all natural number is interesting.

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@umnikos

8 years ago

Every number is interesting if you put $ infront of it (except 0)

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@DerClaudius

9 years ago

"No one is calling this 2121.... If they do that... they annoy me..."

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@nic12344

9 years ago

There is an error in the description! It's 17087 and not 17807!!! In fact 17807 is interesting as it is a prime number!

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@1_____________________

9 years ago

2 is boring because: 2+2=4 2x2=4 2²=4 2↑2=4 2↑↑2=4 ._.

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@EpicFishStudio

8 years ago

Most numbers have something unique, some don't. But if number is not special, isn't it special for not being special?

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@sth128

9 years ago

Aw I was expecting a video where they take a power drill to numbers.

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9 years ago

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@_anastos

9 years ago

The fading of the thumbnail made me think I had already watched the video.

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@mattbritzius570

7 years ago

the least uninteresting number would be the most interesting.

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@GregoMorgan

9 years ago

Jim Carrey wouldn't be happy about these 23s showing up.

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@bernardfinucane2061

6 years ago

This reminds me of the word pentasyllabic, which is pentasyllabic. Oddly, tetrasyllabic is also pentasyllabic. In German, pentasyllabic is fünfsillbig, which is trisyllabic. Getting back to English, trisyllabic is tetrasyllabic. But luckily dreisilbig is trisyllabic. Anyway, when you translate an English sentence into German, its truth value may change. There are seven words in this sentence.

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@richskater

8 years ago

A number is interesting if its the smallest in a set. Assume a number can be uninteresting. Then we could collect these numbers into a set. However, this set would have a smallest element. Thus, the set must be empty. Therefore, all numbers are interesting.

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@j9dz2sf

9 years ago

14972 contains the digits of all its prime divisors in order. 14972 = 2².19.197 1497[2] : 2 [1]4[9]72 : 19 [1]4[97]2 : 197

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@ktx49

9 years ago

Enjoyed the video....its a nice change of pace when things are not taken so seriously. Thanks for upload!

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@LordMarcus

9 years ago

Might be more of an American thing, but I hear "twenty-(something)" hundred reasonably regularly.  Notably, I don't think I regularly hear it for multiples of 1,000, e.g. "twenty-hundred", but for all those in-between numbers, sure -- "twenty-one hundred," "forty-two hundred fifty," "ninety-nine hundred ninety-nine."

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@KasabianFan44

9 years ago

14972 wouldn't actually appear in the sequence. The sequence only contains additive PRIMES - i.e. prime numbers with the sum of their digits also being prime. But 14972 is not prime.

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@cj719521

6 years ago

This is one of my favorite videos on Numberphile so far.

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@nickweems24

9 years ago

I really enjoy that there's a follow up link to every numberphile video now.

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