I'm delighted to see it still has not dawned on you that my point was grammatical, as against mathematical, in nature. I realise mathematicians are in the main socially inept and like to communicate by mathematical propositions to lend the appearance that they operate on a higher plane of functioning to the exclusion of mere mortals outwith the mathematical sphere. It won't work with me. Your mathematics, that said, is unimpeachably accurate and I do not dispute it - even if this is the first time I have ever seen anyone use a set to (re)define an ordinary English word. But my basic point all along was that "paramount" is a superlative adjective. You cannot avoid that by retreating to your arithmetical hinterland.