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What's special about the number 1,001,000,000,001,000,001,001,002,568?

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Problem

What's special about the number 1,001,000,000,001,000,001,001,002,568?

-- Charles Carroll <ccarroll@dfw.net>
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It is the smallest positive integer whose name (in American English)
contains all the letters of the alphabet--except for j, k, and z;
which, as far as I can tell, do not appear in the name of any positive
integer.

I like to think of it as the minimal numeric pangram.

ObPuzzle: find the minimal numeric pangram for other languages.

[ Editor: asked by the archive for the name spelled out, Carroll
replied: ]

Anyway, the number is:

one octillion one septillion one quadrillion one billion one million
two thousand five hundred sixty-eight

I'm interested to see what the minimal numeric pangram is in other
languages, but I don't know any other languages well enough to work
them out.

-- Charles Carroll <ccarroll@dfw.net>

[ Editor: no minimal numeric pangrams for other languages were found
in the collected material. ]