Sunday, October 7, 2012

It's Bad Joke Sunday!

P: All numbers are (somehow) interesting.

Proof (by well-ordering): Suppose there are a set of numbers that are uninteresting. By the well-ordering theorem there is one number among them that is the least such number.

But then that makes it interesting! Contradiction. Therefore, P holds for all numbers (which are all interesting).

(I should be reeeally working on assignments.)

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