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A rabbit hole into poking around a whole mess of Wikipedia pages about specific numbers, which was pretty entertaining.

That said, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers is woefully incomplete.

In university I learned that every integer is interesting. Proof: If there are non-interesting integers, there must be a smallest non-interesting integer, which is an interesting property. ■

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unexpected_hanging_paradox

Your proof assumes there is only a finite set of non-interesting integers, but it could be an infinite set.

Even if the set is infinite, there surely is a smallest non-negative interesting integer.

Yes, the List of numbers page is inadequate.

When I give a monetary gift, I like to make it start with an interesting number. And then I ask the recipient (e.g., my kids, or neices/nephews, etc) if they can figure out what the number is.

e.g., 986.96 is based upon π sqaured.

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