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Aunc.1962 net.math utcsrgv!utzoo!decvax!duke!unc!bts Sun Mar 14 19:56:57 1982 what's your favorite paradox? Log(0) is indeed confusing, but I'd rather hear people's favorite paradoxes. By paradox, I mean a result that can demonstrated or proved, but which is very upsetting to one's intuitions. In order to keep as many of net.math's readers as possible, I suggest that they be kept elementary. (That probably leaves out the Banach-Tarski paradox and many of the paradoxes of set theory, but if someone wants to try to give a simple presentation...) My favorite is the "Alabama paradox", which has to do with apportionment methods for the House of Represen- tatives. I'll write up a short description-- let's limit them to a page-- and submit it to net.math in a day or so.

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