Interesting number paradox (English Wikipedia)

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Hamilton, J. M. C. (1960). "Review of From Zero to Infinity, 2nd ed". Mathematics Magazine. 34 (1): 43–44. doi:10.2307/2687853. JSTOR 2687853?. MR 1571022.

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Singh, Simon (15 October 2013). "Why is the number 1,729 hidden in Futurama episodes?". BBC News Online. Retrieved 15 October 2013.

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Greathouse IV, Charles R. "Uninteresting Numbers". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2011-08-28.

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Gardner, Martin (January 1958). "A collection of tantalizing fallacies of mathematics". Mathematical games. Scientific American. 198 (1): 92–97. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0158-92. JSTOR 24942039.
Chaitin, G. J. (July 1977). "Algorithmic information theory". IBM Journal of Research and Development. 21 (4): 350–359. doi:10.1147/rd.214.0350.
Bennett, Charles H. (2007). "On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers". In Calude, Cristian S. (ed.). Randomness and Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin. World Scientific. pp. 3–12. doi:10.1142/9789812770837_0001. ISBN 978-9-812-77082-0. OCLC 173808093. Originally circulated as a preprint in 1979.
Hamilton, J. M. C. (1960). "Review of From Zero to Infinity, 2nd ed". Mathematics Magazine. 34 (1): 43–44. doi:10.2307/2687853. JSTOR 2687853?. MR 1571022.
Russell, Bertrand (July 1908). "Mathematical logic as based on the theory of types". American Journal of Mathematics. 30 (3): 222–262. doi:10.2307/2369948. JSTOR 2369948.

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Gardner, Martin (January 1958). "A collection of tantalizing fallacies of mathematics". Mathematical games. Scientific American. 198 (1): 92–97. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0158-92. JSTOR 24942039.
Beckenbach, Edwin F. (April 1945). "Interesting integers". The American Mathematical Monthly. 52 (4): 211. JSTOR 2305682.
Hamilton, J. M. C. (1960). "Review of From Zero to Infinity, 2nd ed". Mathematics Magazine. 34 (1): 43–44. doi:10.2307/2687853. JSTOR 2687853?. MR 1571022.
Gould, Henry W. (September 1980). "Which numbers are interesting?". The Mathematics Teacher. 73 (6): 408. JSTOR 27962064.
Russell, Bertrand (July 1908). "Mathematical logic as based on the theory of types". American Journal of Mathematics. 30 (3): 222–262. doi:10.2307/2369948. JSTOR 2369948.

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Bischoff, Manon. "The Most Boring Number in the World Is ..." Scientific American. Retrieved 2023-03-16.

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Baez, John C. (2022-02-28). "Hardy, Ramanujan and Taxi No. 1729". The n-Category Café. Retrieved 2022-10-14.

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Greathouse IV, Charles R. "Uninteresting Numbers". Archived from the original on 2018-06-12. Retrieved 2011-08-28.

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Bennett, Charles H. (2007). "On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers". In Calude, Cristian S. (ed.). Randomness and Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin. World Scientific. pp. 3–12. doi:10.1142/9789812770837_0001. ISBN 978-9-812-77082-0. OCLC 173808093. Originally circulated as a preprint in 1979.
Yanofsky, Noson S. (2013). The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. pp. 26–28. ISBN 978-1-4619-3955-9. OCLC 857467673.
Wells, David (1987). The Penguin Dictionary of Curious and Interesting Numbers. Penguin Books. p. 120. OCLC 17634415.

Interesting number paradox (English Wikipedia)

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