So are numbers. There is an interesting (if non-rigorous) “proof” that all integers are “interesting”–unique, special. Here is the proof. We start with 1, which is obviously interesting since it’s the first number. 2 is the first even number, so it, too, is interesting. 3 is the first non-unity, odd prime. 4 is the first non-prime. And so on. Now, you can prove that all integers have to be interesting by using proof by contradiction. Assume there are some interesting integers, and some non-interesting ones. Let the first non-interesting one be X, and thus the number before it, X-1, has to be interesting. But how can X not be interesting–it’s the very first non-interesting number, which of course makes it special.
Ergo, there can be no non-interesting integer, because there would have to be a first one which is necessarily interesting by virtue of this fact. There cannot be a first non-interesting number, and therefore there can be none.
Uhhh… ain’t that interesting? Hello? =tap tap tap= Is this microphone on?
12:49 am on November 4, 2003
