• zipsglacier@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    There are tons of them! For example, the class of numbers n such that there is a Platonic solid made of n-gons. This class only has the numbers 3, 4, and 5. You can get other examples any time there is an interesting mathematical structure with only finitely many examples.

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      11 months ago

      Well, yes, obviously. I was hoping for something number-theoretic, though. Let me reword the title.