OT: Did You Know?

Aug 11, 2012 14 Replies
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Vic Smith

Interesting. I'm looking for letter "Q" now. Up to 3,367,992. Still haven't seen it, but I'll find it. Got any tips? Do I really have to go to a quintillion?

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Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' and 'd' do not appear if you spell any of the numbers between 1 and 99 [Funnily enough, letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred]


In addition, letters 'a', 'b' and 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of



1 to 999 [Strange, but true, letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand]


Neither letter 'b' nor 'c' appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999 [Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion]


Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English counting.


Interesting. I'm looking for letter "Q" now. Up to 3,367,992. Still haven't seen it, but I'll find it. Got any tips? Do I really have to go to a quintillion?

"one octillion" isn't there :)

BTW, these things (like one,two, three) are NUMERALS. I learned that in

4th grade.

Quadrillion comes before quintillion

There is a lot of repetition in numeral names. No need to check them all

one O N E two T W three H R four F U five I V six S X seven eight G nine ten eleven L twelve thirteen fifteen twenty Y thirty forty fifty hundred D thousand A million M billion B trillion quadrillion Q quintillion sextillion septillion P octillion C nonillion decillion

still no J, K, or Z

Thanks. I'm done now. That saved me some time.

I bet they taught you silly things like "gender" is a property of nouns not of people, too.

How about Apéry's constant?

I didn't know that and to think I got a college degree from an accredited college. Shameful isn't it :(

Well, only if you limit yourself to a radix of ten.

So what? I don't see 'z', or 'q'.

Centillion? O_o

TDD

for the victims of public education: gazillion

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