164. Neil deGrasse Tyson — Cosmic Queries: StarTalk’s Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We’re Going
The Michael Shermer Show
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How Many Grains of Sand Does It Take to Make a Heap?
Mathematicians have this a problem calledwell, colloquially, it's called the problem of the heap. How many grains of sand does it take to make a heap of sand? Can it one? No. Ad i think a little more legitimate than that would be, what is the smallest whole number? Digit,. The smallest whole number that has no interesting properties to it? Kdonow, so for example, the number one. It's like, it's just one. Two is the only even prime number you're not going to break out into three. But one is the loneliest number.
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