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math ask game: 49, 62

hyperoperationfractallisation:

lipshits-continuous:

tesco-finest-aromantics:

lipshits-continuous:

49. What’s your favorite number system? Integers? Reals? Rationals? Hyper-reals? Surreals? Complex? Natural numbers?

Complex numbers easily. Complex analysis has some wonderful results!


62. Are there any non-interesting numbers?

I mean, if we declared a number to be non-interesting because it didn’t have any/many common nice/interesting properties surely it would then be interesting because why doesn’t it exhibit interesting properties? Surely the absence of anything interesting would in and of itself be something interesting?

Thanks for the ask!

A picture of a page from a book. The focus is a section about the number 51, which says "This appears to be the first uninteresting number, which of course makes it an especially interesting number, because it is the smallest number to have the property of being uninteresting. It is therefore also the first number to be simultaneously interesting and uninteresting."ALT

from: the penguin dictionary of curious and interesting numbers by david wells

This is a good example of how sometimes maths definitions can be a bit weird. By that I mean, the everyday antonym of a word is always the opposite mathematical property. Like how in general open does not imply not closed!

FIFTY ONE IS THREE TIMES SEVENTEEN