whats the smallest natural number that delivers zero google search results?
Posted Mar 17, 2009, 1:15 AM UTC
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000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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The second you did it it will have a google search result so... it doesn't exist the second you find it.
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mask it, write the last digit out or something.
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Some asshole will just write it in the comments.
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I was just gonna say that! It's a paradox. "Say the smallest natural number that won't ever be said."
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well if you really need to, you can resolve it by saying "say the number that is one less than the smallest number that won't ever be said"
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Yeah, but you'd be changing the original problem. It's like bypassing Russell's paradox by using a different set theory. Of course you can.
- Do 3/0.
- I can't, but I can resolve 3/1.
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No, because one cannot make an intuitive guess as to what 3/0 is from 3/1...
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Restarting the restart:
Current winner IS: 160470907 plus 1 (felintrade)
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Damn myspace ID's.
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Replacement Scoreboard: 175474463 by xrobau
I'll vote you up but lets keep the main thread going too. ;)
This is a good place for the scoreboard and discussion, though.
I'm for answers always being their own replies. Edits don't preserve the timestamp and the lack of edit star is a guarantee of integrity.
-- Discussion --
What strategy did you use?
I used two programs. One program walked down from the current best number to see if any of the numbers close to it were better candidates. The other program took a range from a lower bound that I played with but which was around 150,000,000 and went to up to the current best candidate. As I got better candidates, I lowered both the upper and lower bound of the random number generator.
I ran those in parallel on a Linux box and I could achieve about 3 queries per second per process on it. After that, it has been all luck...
Fun stuff!
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You're far more advanced than me. I've just got a pile of computers running scripts doing wget google.com/q=$s and grepping it for 'no results' 8)
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Haha, exactly what I'm doing!
Incidentally, 172966651
:D
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Bugger. And it looks like I've just been banned from google!
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169994427 plus 1 - gotta go do some work. Have fun 8)
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16047273two
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16047090eight
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I was asked this question once in a job interview.
For my answer, I said I would search for a few minutes to find a reasonably low number, and then make a page with every number up to that one, and then submit it to google for indexing.
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Did you get the job?
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I called them three days later, and the HR lady said that the people who had interviewed me had all been laid off, so I wasn't going to be hired. I took a job elsewhere the next day.
A week after that, they sent me a job offer anyways, offering $10k/year more than the other job I accepted. I turned it down, because my current job has me as Lead Engineer doing what I like (rapid prototyping and proofs of concept instead of web design). Plus, leaving a job after a week generally ain't cool. Yes I am probably underpaid at my current job, but I'm happy
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Why Peter Norvig?
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Larry and Sergey were on vacation.
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He is in charge of Google Search results.
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11919312943
edit: shit
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I think I'm winning so far.
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You are... and you even prevented your submission from being indexed - nice!
Edit: looks like alfador's 371264393 is winning now
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not anymore, 98,919,618 + 200,000,000
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Ahem. 193980966.
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You mean 1142835161?
Yes, I only did that to be a prick.
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371264393
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371264371
3
351264371
2
35126435three
EDIT: 25126419six
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235920714
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This isn't mathematics. This is trivia.
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Do you guys think there is a predictable rate at which this number will increase over time? Presumably this number was lower two years ago, and much lower five years ago, etc. etc
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Edit: 497223212
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I get a result for that one.
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I don't.
Looks like our queries use different data centers which are not completely synchronized...
Is your result from reddit, or something else?
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Changeset 13194 for ImageMagick/trunk/www/command-line-processing ... 126, <p>See <a href="http://www.imagemagick.org/Usage/" target=" 497223212 ">Examples of ImageMagick Usage</a> for additional help when using ImageMagick ... trac.imagemagick.org/changeset/13194/ImageMagick/trunk/www/command-line-processing.html - Similar pages -
Zestaw reczników reczniki frotte 3 sztuki sprawdz (497223212 ...
- [ Translate this page ] Allegro - największe aukcje internetowe, najniższe ceny! Kup i sprzedaj! aukcje.gazeta.pl/show_item.php?item=497223212
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Hmm, that's interesting.
If I search just for 497223212, I get no result.
If I search for "497223212 changeset" (without quotes), I get the result you mention.
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two results here. and neither of them are this thread.
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http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rls=en&q=1299282125
Fuck you, weather.noaa.gov
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how is this related with math?
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i haz numbas
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Computer science and math are very much related these days if you haven't heard.
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how is this related with computer science?
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Web programming and computer science are very much related these days if you haven't heard.
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how is this related with programming?
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First of all, if you want this to work, you have to write the number in a way that will not be indexed by the Google. Like leave some spaces in between, or use some sort of punctuation, or write it as a word.
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1410012131
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1399282118
Ha!
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Even better:
1299986329
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55378008
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0!!! = 1, does it not?
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Apparently not to computer scientists.
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Yet another one of those motherfuckers I hated in elementary school. God, go get stuffed in a locker.
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Apparently 86 in quechua is "pusaq chunka suqtayuq", which does not reveal any true hits.
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There is no smallest uninteresting number
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What is wrong in the proof is that the property that made it interesting which is it being the "smallest uninteresting number" is no longer applicable.
That's not wrong.
The `proof' just shows that the existence of a smallest uninteresting number is a paradox, therefore it can't exist. It doesn't need to say anything about the other way round.
It being a paradox does not mean that it does not exist.
There are contradictions in life, but it does not mean that they do not exist.