An interesting little tid bit !!!!

**wombat2u2004** · 07-06-2007, 07:57 PM

Bet you do not know this . Very interesting !

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

How surprising!

**mrspunkysmom** · 07-06-2007, 10:58 PM

That's interesting Wom.

'C' does show for the first time in decillion which is 10 to the 33 power. However, I have yet to find "Z" in any number in the English language.

I wonder how this plays out in other European languages?

"Z" is in Zehn and Zwei.

anybody else?

**mrspunkysmom** · 07-08-2007, 12:02 AM

Wombat, you got me started.

Z is in Zero but that is not a counting number. Zillion is not a real number, but a word to express an impossibly large number.

"P" shows up in septillion. "Q" shows in quadrillion.

I've not seen 'j' in any number name.

Big Numbers

have Fun

**wombat2u2004** · 07-08-2007, 12:27 AM

Originally Posted by mrspunkysmom

Wombat, you got me started.

Z is in Zero but that is not a counting number. Zillion is not a real number, but a word to express an impossibly large number.

"P" shows up in septillion. "Q" shows in quadrillion.

I've not seen 'j' in any number name.

Big Numbers

have Fun

What about.........Jazillion ????
Wom