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List of Lists of Lists

• jihadjihad 5y ago
  A similarly amusing Wikipedia page is the one on recursive islands and lakes [0], where you can find such curiosities as a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake. 0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recursive_islands_and_lakes
  • ddek 5y ago
    Sadly google's satellite resolution isn't high enough to see the final island of the worlds only 'island in a lake on an island in a lake on an island in a lake'. I wonder how one would get there. https://www.google.com/maps/place/62%C2%B039'03.0%22N+97%C2%B047'21.0%22W/@62.6521846,-97.7939548,2000m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x0!8m2!3d62.6508333!4d-97.7891667 https://www.google.com/maps/place/62%C2%B039'03.0%22N+97%C2%...
  • syamkumar 5y ago
    "A piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari
• timw4mail 5y ago
  Does that make this a supermetalist?
  • dgrin91 5y ago
    > List of lists of lists: This article itself is a list of lists, so it contains itself.[a] So yes
• anthony_r 5y ago
  The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists. https://www.wyliecomm.com/2016/08/quotes-on-list-writing/ https://www.wyliecomm.com/2016/08/quotes-on-list-writing/ https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/about-lists https://www.quotetab.com/quotes/about-lists
• deadalus 5y ago
  I found this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists Other interesting ones : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_disciplines https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_discipline... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_knowledge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_knowledge
• zmix 5y ago
  Another interesting one, in this regard, would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism
• matchagaucho 5y ago
  I thought this was going to be a nested collections coding abuse link. new List< List< List<String> > >();
  • ph2082 5y ago
    I can't think of use case for this.
    • mjburgess 5y ago
      new List< List< List<String> > >(); seems a reasonable model of, new Table< Column< Row >> ();
    • gnulinux 5y ago
      You cannot think of a usecase for list of matrices or a usecase for 3-tensor?
• Sharlin 5y ago
  But does Wikipedia have a list of all lists that do not contain themselves?
  • suprfsat 5y ago
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_that_don%27t_include_themselves https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_that_don%27t_inc...
  • LinAGKar 5y ago
    They mention that there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists#cite_note-1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists#cite_no...
• skrause 5y ago
  List of HN discussions of List of Lists of Lists: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542366 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886292 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633972 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384134 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384134
  • kreetx 5y ago
    But notably, the current list of lists discussion is the only one containing a list to HN discussions.
• davidw 5y ago
  Given the provenance of HN, I was expecting something about Lisp.
• malingo 5y ago
  If you're feeling listless...
• karmakaze 5y ago
  Curious that the lists regarding computers, software, and programming is so sparse given that 'software is eating the world' Lists of computers Lists of mobile computers Lists of microcomputers Lists of programming languages Lists of software Lists of websites