The Heart of Mathematics: An Invitation to Effective Thinking
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Author: Edward B. Burger, Michael Starbird
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Chapter 3.2, Problem 22MS
A natural prune. Describe a collection of numbers you could remove from the set of natural numbers so that the set of remaining numbers contains fewer numbers than the set of all natural numbers. (Bonus: How many times did the word nwnbers appear in the previous sentence?)
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