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Shortest Long Number (Posted on 2004-04-15)

What is the smallest positive integer that cannot be defined in less than twenty-five syllables?

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By the by, I just noticed now that Wikipedia has a nice write-up on this paradox: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berry_paradox

Posted by Sam on 2005-02-03 09:48:30

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