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[โ€“] zipsglacier@lemmy.world 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[โ€“] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org -1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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