Ted was now curious to find the largest number. He asked 1, “Who is the largest number here?” 1 replied, “I don’t know, ask 2.”
Ted went to 2 who told him to ask 3. Similarly, every number asked Ted to ask the next greater number. After asking a lot of numbers he realized:

He will find the largest number eventually

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That largest number must be invisible

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That numbers are pranking him

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He can never find the largest number because every number tells him to ask the next greater number

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Solution

The correct option is D
He can never find the largest number because every number tells him to ask the next greater number

Since every number tells Ted to ask the next number, Ted will never be able to find the largest number. This is because there will always be a number larger than the largest number. That’s why it is said that there are infinite natural numbers.

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Ted was now curious to find the largest number. He asked 1, “Who is the largest number here?” 1 replied, “I don’t know, ask 2.”
Ted went to 2 who told him to ask 3. Similarly, every number asked Ted to ask the next greater number. After asking a lot of numbers he realized:

Surprised to know that $- 1$ was the largest number here, Ted asked $- 13$ about the smallest number. When it told him to ask $- 14$ about the smallest number, he understood that it is impossible to find the smallest negative integer. To find $0$ , Ted went to its house with $- 13$ and found it was empty.

After that Ted asked $- 13$ about zero. He was shocked when it said that $0$ was kidnapped by the positive integers and that its house has always been empty.
How is this even possible that $0$ is not in the state of positive integers as well as negative integers?

$0$ was very happy to finally get to meet other numbers after a long long time. Also, every number was very angry at $- 1$ . Everybody told Ted to be the judge of what should be done to $- 1$ . $- 1$ realized its mistake and asked for forgiveness. Ted forgave $- 1$ and finally, a world of integers was formed where no number was largest or smallest.

Then out of curiosity, Ted asked $0$ , “How many integers actually are there in this world?” $0$ replied – “There are __ integers.”

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Ted was now curious to find the largest number. He asked 1, “Who is the largest number here?” 1 replied, “I don’t know, ask 2.” Ted went to 2 who told him to ask 3. Similarly, every number asked Ted to ask the next greater number. After asking a lot of numbers he realized:

Ted was now curious to find the largest number. He asked 1, “Who is the largest number here?” 1 replied, “I don’t know, ask 2.”
Ted went to 2 who told him to ask 3. Similarly, every number asked Ted to ask the next greater number. After asking a lot of numbers he realized: