Friday, August 26, 2011

'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' and English Numbers

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

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd'  do not appear anywhere in the spellings of numbers 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 the spellings of entire English Counting

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