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The Frivolous Theorem of Arithmetic

Posted by richardelwes on December 7, 2009
Posted in: Maths, Nonsense.

It’s a new one on me, but I like it:

Almost all natural numbers are very, very, very large.

We could extend it by saying that for any n, almost all natural numbers are veryn large. But that might not be so frivolous.

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