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0 is the most uninteresting number. Its just a starting point of measure that says nothing qualitative.

4 pages for this well known bad joke...
and the real answer has been told already, 42.

The list is much, much shorter of numbers that I do find interesting, and for those I find uninteresting, they're equally so.

Re the Wikipedia article, "the smallest uninteresting number is itself interesting because it is the smallest uninteresting number"--that's certainly optimistic. I don't find that interesting at all.

4. It doesn't really have a lot going for it. Three is tidy. Five is useful.

osgart wrote:0 is the most uninteresting number. Its just a starting point of measure that says nothing qualitative.

The invention of the zero, by Arab scholars, was possibly the greatest single mathematical invention of all time, enabling mature counting systems in columns, and base numbering systems from decimal to binary to sexagesimal.

Philosophy Explorer wrote:

Arising_uk wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:
Keep trying.

PhilX

Nope. That is the most uninteresting number, Douglas said so.

Who is Douglas and why does he say so?

PhilX

Ignorant savage!

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:

Arising_uk wrote: Nope. That is the most uninteresting number, Douglas said so.

Who is Douglas and why does he say so?

PhilX

Ignorant savage!

I ask Arising back on 11/27 and look who pops his head out.

PhilX

Philosophy Explorer wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:
Who is Douglas and why does he say so?

PhilX

Ignorant savage!

I ask Arising back on 11/27 and look who pops his head out.

PhilX

You were ignorant 27/11, and you are still ignorant.

Hobbes' Choice wrote:

Philosophy Explorer wrote:

Hobbes' Choice wrote:
Ignorant savage!

I ask Arising back on 11/27 and look who pops his head out.

PhilX

You were ignorant 27/11, and you are still ignorant.

As if you're one to judge Hog's Choice.

PhilX