42 was used as it's the most boring number chosen by John Cleese for a sketch as recalled by Douglas Adams (though Adams had previously said that it was just a random choice). On 5 Jan 2014, at 20:31, Kerry Mitchell wrote:
Certainly, all natural numbers are interesting, but (it seems to me) they are not all equally interesting (or popular or useful or talked-about). So, there's no least-interesting number, but are there less-interesting numbers? Without trying to establish a hierarchy, are there numbers that, by having minimal membership in other groups, are less interesting?
Kerry
On Sun, Jan 5, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Eugene Salamin <gene_salamin@yahoo.com>wrote:
All natural numbers are interesting because, if there were an uninteresting number, there would be a smallest one, and that number would be interesting by virtue of being the smallest uninteresting number.
-- Gene