List of Lists of Lists

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists

by marcacohen • 5 years ago

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jihadjihad• 5 years 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

ddek• 5 years 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%...

syamkumar• 5 years ago

"A piece of India within a piece of Bangladesh within a piece of India within Bangladesh"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dahala_Khagrabari

timw4mail• 5 years ago

Does that make this a supermetalist?

dgrin91• 5 years ago

List of lists of lists: This article itself is a list of lists, so it contains itself.[a]

So yes

anthony_r• 5 years 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.quotetab.com/quotes/about-lists

deadalus• 5 years ago

I found this : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Lists

Other interesting ones :

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_academic_discipline...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_of_knowledge

zmix• 5 years ago

Another interesting one, in this regard, would be: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-ism

matchagaucho• 5 years ago

I thought this was going to be a nested collections coding abuse link.

   new List< List< List<String> > >();

ph2082• 5 years ago

I can't think of use case for this.

mjburgess• 5 years ago

    new List< List< List<String> > >();

seems a reasonable model of,

    new Table< Column< Row >> ();

gnulinux• 5 years ago

You cannot think of a usecase for list of matrices or a usecase for 3-tensor?

Sharlin• 5 years ago

But does Wikipedia have a list of all lists that do not contain themselves?

suprfsat• 5 years ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_that_don%27t_inc...

LinAGKar• 5 years ago

They mention that there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists#cite_no...

skrause• 5 years ago

List of HN discussions of List of Lists of Lists:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3542366

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24886292

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23633972

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21384134

kreetx• 5 years ago

But notably, the current list of lists discussion is the only one containing a list to HN discussions.

davidw• 5 years ago

Given the provenance of HN, I was expecting something about Lisp.

malingo• 5 years ago

If you're feeling listless...

karmakaze• 5 years 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

List of Lists of Lists

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