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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by pixelpoet on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:13PM (#22344064)
I love how the article starts with the most boring facts about 1729:

> 1729 is the natural number following 1728 and preceding 1730.

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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by russellbeattie on Sunday February 16, 2020 @05:42PM (#22344190)
Heh. I've been reading HN for long enough to never be surprised by the capability of incredibly pedantic people to be incredibly pedantic.
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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by JoeAltmaier on Monday February 17, 2020 @10:22AM (#22348267)
We had to have a home somewhere :) And this is it.
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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by wwweston on Sunday February 16, 2020 @09:33PM (#22345140)
If a fact is the most boring[0], though, certainly that's something notable and therefore interesting about it.

Therefore, these are not the most boring facts about 1729.

;)

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox

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Re:Ramanujan Surprises Again (2015) by mkl on Monday February 17, 2020 @05:44AM (#22346743)
Well, that shows there is no most boring fact, but I think it doesn't preclude a the existence of a set of most boring facts, with none more boring than all the others. Yes, that is an interesting feature of the facts in the set, but does it mean that they are all necessarily more boring than every fact outside the set?
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