Cool facts about alphabets and numbers

by Keith Dsouza | Translate | Print
Wednesday, 18th Jul 2007 | Share




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
    July 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am #

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

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    keith Reply:

    Yups i too never knew that

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

    It’s amazing the things we never think about.

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

    Never noticed this one. Really amazing.

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

    @Nirmal yes its really amazing

    @Ryan yea sometimes we tend to overlook such things

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

    Amazing !

    But who was the one who actually found this ?

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

    This is interesting :)

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

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

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  8. TechZilo
    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…

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

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

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