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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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Tags: Offbeat News
Haris
July 18th, 2007 at 10:34 am #
WOW! Nice one. I really never noticed them in English counting.
keith
July 18th, 2007 at 10:51 am #
Yups i too never knew that
Ryan Wagner
July 18th, 2007 at 4:24 pm #
It’s amazing the things we never think about.
Nirmal
July 19th, 2007 at 5:45 am #
Never noticed this one. Really amazing.
keith
July 19th, 2007 at 8:28 am #
@Nirmal yes its really amazing
@Ryan yea sometimes we tend to overlook such things
WordPress Plugin Advice
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:03 pm #
Amazing !
But who was the one who actually found this ?
pelf
July 23rd, 2007 at 6:07 pm #
This is interesting
TechZilo
July 28th, 2007 at 2:18 am #
You’ve been slowing down a lot……I wonder why?
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…