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All Numbers Are Less Than A Million

© Copyright 1997, Jim Loy

Did you know that all numbers are less than a million. Allow me to prove it to you.

Let's try the first few numbers:

• 1<1,000,000
• 2<1,000,000
• 3<1,000,000
• 4<1,000,000
• 5<1,000,000
• 6<1,000,000
• 7<1,000,000
• 8<1,000,000
• 9<1,000,000
• 10<1,000,000
• 11<1,000,000
• ...

I think you see the pattern that is developing here. I've actually tried a couple hundred of these numbers. And all of them were less than a million.

Are you convinced? Of course not, that was pretty stupid. But, it mainly seems stupid because you knew that it was false, and it was nothing like a rigorous mathematical proof. But, this "proof" is very close to what often passes as proof in the non-mathematical world.

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