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isn't nondescript an oxymoron?
dunno about that, but nondescript is non-self-descriptive -- what was the word for that again?
oh yeah.. heterological.
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What is the most nondescript whole number between 0 and 61? 1All other numbers are either divisible by two, divisible by three or themselves a prime number and, therefore, rather descript. The number 1 is, artfully®, the only *whole number. 
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What is the most nondescript whole number between 0 and 61?
1
All* other numbers are either divisible by two, divisible by three or themselves a prime number and, therefore, rather descript.
The number 1 is, artfully®, the only *whole number.
*with the exception of 25, 35, 49, and 55 of course.
-ron ("numbers") obvious
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tsu: I had you down for 37
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Google has spoken
And it said that "nondescript" means "less hits".
I, whose other hobby is practicing the yo-yo, have compiled the results...
Note: (*) = one billion hits.
1 ******************
2 ***************
3 *************
4 ***********
5 ***********
6 *********
7 *********
8 ********
9 ********
10 ***********
11 ********
12 *********
13 ******
14 ******
15 ******
16 ******
17 ******
18 ******
19 *****
20 ********
21 ******
22 ******
23 *****
24 ******
25 ******
26 *****
27 *****
28 ****
29 ****
30 *****
31 ****
32 **
33 **
34 **
35 **
...and so forth, with the same decreasing pattern.
And by the time I got to interesting numbers like "area" 51 and the "pictorial" 69, the numbers were swinging downwards below one billion.
Done.
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Yeah-but 25, 35, 49 and 55 are all notorious.... way beyond descript.
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What is the most nondescript whole number between 0 and 61?
The number 1 is, artfully®, the only *whole number.
One ain't the onliest number, 'cause it's second to none.
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One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do
Two can be as bad as one
It's the loneliest number since the number one
~Three Dog Night, One
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Ok, time's up, the results are in, and the winners are...
Best Musical Score: Father Steve (for that cute little number by Three Dog Night.)
Best One Liner: Faldage (he's got a million of 'em)
Best Mathematical Director: tsuwm (for keeping mister musick's remarks on descript.)
Standley Kubrick Awad Award: Dalehileman (for asking murky questions that don't have real answers and then not answering them)
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