Answering Questions about Boring Numbers, Disasters, Fusion, and More
Briefly

You know a story is going to be fun when it starts with a question that makes you laugh: What is the most boring number in the world?It's a legitimate mathematical question, and it turns out there are interesting numbers (prime numbers, powers of 2) and not-so-interesting numbers.You can probably anticipate the paradox: If a number is especially boring, doesn't that make it interesting?
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