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Re:The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004) by wizzwizz4 on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:04AM (#24930575)
That just sounds like another formulation of the Surprise Exam paradox.[0] It falls down when you realise that “the four hundred and seventieth otherwise uninteresting number” is not a particularly interesting number, so there must be a problem with the problem statement.

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

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Re:The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004) by alisonkisk on Thursday October 29, 2020 @10:26AM (#24930766)
It's a paradox related to "meta-logic", but it's different. Surprise exam is about temporal reasoning -- It's only impossible to be surprised on the last day (or else the premise of having an exam is invalidsted), and reasoning backwards in time from a contradiction is not valid.

Uninteresting number is a simpler contradiction in definitions.

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