At the risk of attracting Louis Farrakhan’s attention, I note the following link, which tells you what is interesting about every single natural number.*

The first number the website has nothing to say about is 226. This should, therefore, be the smallest uninteresting natural number… except that, by a theorem well-known to math undergraduates, there can be no such thing.

Theorem: There is no such thing as the smallest uninteresting natural number.

Proof: Let S be the set of all uninteresting natural numbers. Suppose that S is nonempty. Now, a well-known theorem states that every nonempty set of natural numbers has a least member. S therefore has a least member. Call this least member N. Then N is the smallest uninteresting natural number. But that’s interesting! N is therefore interesting on that account. Reductio ad absurdum–so our starting assumption, that S is nonempty, must be false. Therefore S is empty. There are no uninteresting natural numbers.

There are, however, deeply, deeply uninteresting court cases…..

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* “Natural number” is a term of art in math. The natural numbers are the positive whole numbers 1, 2, 3, 4, … Zero is sometimes included, but more often not.