Talk:Mathematical paradoxes

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"The number of phrases shorter than 100 letters is finite. In fact, it can't exceed 27100." While true, you wouldn' start or finish with a space and multiple spaces would logicaly be treated as a single space. Just sayin'. Redchuck.gif ГенгисOur ignorance is God; what we know is science. 17:09, 20 November 2009 (UTC)

This article needs more goat![edit]

It does. This thing is dry as the Sahara. Anything we can do? The Heidelberg Kid (talk) 02:54, 27 January 2012 (UTC)

excessively long phrase divided by itself = ickle number[edit]

Consider the number described by the phrase

"The square root of thirty-six"

Phrases can denote numbers clearly and unambiguously, can't they?


Am I being a dumb-arse here, or was the writer of that? Either I'm being a dumb-arse and not acknowledging this is rhetorical, or the writer didn't know the square root of 36 is 6, or minus 6.

92.40.255.77 (talk) 12:36, 12 August 2013 (UTC)

PS, can someone remind me if zero is a natural number or not too.