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Didn’t you ever asked yourself what’s the greatest natural number?

Well, I have! And I’ve found it and also found the formula that demonstrates it. I will present you the mathematic deduction of what the greatest natural number is. Regardless this problem has been questioned for years, you need no advanced mathematical knoledge to understand it, just grade 2 equations.

Let’s start:

We will note with ’X’ the greatest natural number then follow some mathematical deductions to find it.

‘X’ being the greatest natural number it’s bigger then all numbers and also should be bigger or equals X², so let’s use this:

X>=X² => X-X²>=0 => X(1-X)>=0;

Interesting result, we know that X it’s a natural number so X is greater than 0. So the expression (1-x) must be greater than 0 or else X(1-X)>0 wouldn’t be true.

So,

1-X>=0 => 1>=X

We have the situation where X can only be 0 or 1 and since X it’s the greatest natural number, and 1>0 it is 1.

So the greatest natural number is 1.

Isn’t this amazing?