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Serious response? In that case the set still has a smallest member which can then be removed, if we keep going eventually there will be no uninteresting numbers remaining.


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leereeves06/16/2025

The problem with that is the explanation of why each number is interesting becomes:

the smallest member of the original set of uninteresting numbers

the second smallest member of the original set of uninteresting numbers

the third ...

...

That version of "interesting" quickly becomes "not interesting". The concept simply defies mathematical logic.

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