Letters And Spellings Of Numbers Letters a, b, c d and sp

[OpaQue 15]

This is awesome - I bet you didn't know this...
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)

source : email

[arza1 0]

wow this is really interesting. i doubt that was done on purpose though. it is a nice pattern discovery though.

Edited August 3, 2007 by arza1 (see edit history)

[Plenoptic 0]

Pretty interesting. Hopefully whoever looked to see when those letters appeared didn't write out every single number and realized that 1001 is just one thousand one and saw that it's the same as counting from one all over again. Too bad it doesn't say when c shows up, now I am intrigued to find out but I don't really feel like looking it up. My guess is it'd be at one octillion.

[Saint_Michael 3]

Actually the first time C shows up is in octillion and yes I did look it up and this website list all the groups of numbers starting at thousand and talking about googleplex. Again though it's amazing about what complex patterns people can find from something simple as numbers and time.

[odomike 0]

Oh men, would I ever have believed this? WOW. Quite interesting.

[Dagoth Nereviar 0]

Peopl have way too much time on their hands. I mean it could be coincidence this was discovered but the documentation of it and the spreading around of it is rather pointless.