OT: off-topic

[Tim Golden]

Isn't this similar to (someone-or-other's) proof that there's no such thing
as an uninteresting number? The idea is that you have a list of numbers
which are "interesting" for some reason, eg 4 & 6 are the sum of their
factors etc. You are then left with a list of "uninteresting" numbers.
However, the smallest number in this list is the smallest uninteresting
number, and is therefore interesting, so it moves to the list of interesting
numbers, leaving you with the smallest remaining uninteresting number, which
therefore becomes interesting, etc. etc.

TJG

-----Original Message-----
From: Fernando Pérez [mailto:fperez528 at yahoo.com]
Sent: 23 May 2002 06:35
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: OT: off-topic


Greg Ewing wrote:

> Why stop at a Python-specific solution? Off-topic
> postings are a problem in all newsgroups, so I
> propose a single group:
> 
>    news.off-topic
> 
> for all off-topic posts on any subject. The only
> trouble is that, in that group, off-topic posts
> would be on topic, and therefore not suitable
> for news.off-topic... excuse me, my brain is
> about to explode...
> 

Very nice :) Basically you got the Russell paradox (more or less), which 
turned set theory on its head at the turn of the century.

Cheers,

f.

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