Re: What is the MOST INTERESTING integer you know?


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William Elliot wrote:
On Sun, 20 Aug 2006, Reef Fish wrote:

Tito Mangiuea wrote:
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Having read the three threads on "interesting Question", indexed
1
to 3, and found nothing interesting in the question or the
answers,
I hereby propose to raise the intellectual level of this group
by
my
subject.

Paul Erdos is the great Hungarian mathematicians who can find
something
interesting about every 4 digit number he encountered; and the
theorem
that "All integers are interesting" had been proven.

So, that left us with the only thing, among all interesting
integers, is WHICH of them is the MOST interesting, in your
opinion,
and why?

What number is a square and also the sum of it's square roots ?

You are not supposed to ask a question, but GIVE your most
interesting number. Your number 4 may be interesting, but
certainly can't be the "most interesting" don't you think?

Do you really think he means
2^2 = 2*2 = 2 + 2 ?

what ELSE can he mean when he says (correcting for the typo "it's")

What number is a square and also the sum of it's square roots ?


Nay, he means
1 = (sqr 1)^2

Er ... 1 is NOT the sum of sqrt(1) + sqrt(1).

Your solution would be the PRODUCT of its square roots,
which would be true of EVERY integer. :0)

-- Reef Fish Bob.


Well, hold on here a minute. 1 has two square roots, +1 and -1. The only
number that is the sum of its square roots is 0.

Is junior high in session already?

The subject asks for an integer.

Since when is 0 an integer?

Huh? The integers are {... -2, -1, 0, 1, 2 ...}

Not to mention -1 is not a square
in the real domain.

Last time I checked -1 was a Real, and -1 squared was +1.

4 has two square roots, +2 and -2. These sum to zero.

Or do you think 4 has two square roots, 2 and 2?

The only solution to your remakably trivial question is zero.


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