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