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We will finally be able to answer humanity's most pressing question: what is the smallest uninteresting positive integer?

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Some will argue that such a number doesn't exist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox). Others say it is 11630 (http://www.nathanieljohnston.com/2009/06/11630-is-the-first-...)

what is the smallest uninteresting positive integer?

Doesn't discovering that unique number instantly make it interesting? :)

It's an API, so I have this code running now:

    for i in xrange(10000):
        print i
        trivia = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d' % i).text
        math = requests.get('http://numbersapi.com/%d/math' % i).text
        if 'boring' in math and ('plain' in trivia or 'boring' in trivia):
            print math, trivia    
            break
        time.sleep(2)

http://numbersapi.com/1321/trivia has given me both "1321 is a most unremarkable number" and "1321 is an uninteresting number", to give an upper bound. ;-)

223.

EDIT: 219 is definitely smaller than 223.

219

Edit: on the other hand, in the math category "219 is the smallest number that can be represented as a sum of four positive cubes in two different ways."

223 is a US date-prime. 2 and 23 is prime, and so is 223.

That may be a stretch, but it qualifies as something interesting.

I hope you know the answer to this?

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