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Cool facts about alphabets and numbers

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Some cool facts about numbers many of us may never have noticed.

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99
(Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999
(Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999
(Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And
Letter ‘c’ does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting  

 

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  1. Haris on July 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am #

    WOW! Nice one. I really never noticed them in English counting.

  2. Ryan Wagner on July 18th, 2007 at 4:24 pm #

    It’s amazing the things we never think about.

  3. Nirmal on July 19th, 2007 at 5:45 am #

    Never noticed this one. Really amazing.

  4. keith on July 19th, 2007 at 8:28 am #

    @Nirmal yes its really amazing

    @Ryan yea sometimes we tend to overlook such things

  5. WordPress Plugin Advice on July 23rd, 2007 at 6:03 pm #

    Amazing !

    But who was the one who actually found this ?

  6. pelf on July 23rd, 2007 at 6:07 pm #

    This is interesting :)

  7. TechZilo on July 28th, 2007 at 2:18 am #

    You’ve been slowing down a lot……I wonder why?

  8. TechZilo on July 28th, 2007 at 2:28 am #

    Oh, I get it, it must be that WPAU plugin. If so, i’d be happy that you work there rather than blog…

  9. Spazzo on February 20th, 2010 at 5:06 am #

    Actually, 'c' appears first in the number 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000. (1 Octillion)…

  10. sanjeev on September 9th, 2011 at 5:17 am #

    alphabet “z” never comes in counting ?
    ur views.