But although some numbers are more special than others, the property of being special is not transitive, therefore there are no "least special" numbers.

;)

Regarding "Re: ANN: the first million prime numbers in XML format",

on Friday, July 06, 2012 16:58:47,

Michael Kay wrote to xml-dev@l...

> >>> Er, pardon me for asking, but what's so special about prime numbers?

>

> All numbers are equally special.

>

> Proof: suppose that some numbers are more special than others. Then

> there must be a set of numbers that are the least special of all; and

> one of these must be the lowest such number. This number would be rather

> special. Contradiction.

>

> Michael Kay

> Saxonica