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02 Oct 18
Originally posted by @lemondropYou mean that there's an 'a' in 'thousand' but not in the ones before? That's hardly surprising, given that all those 999 numbers are derived fron only 12 Germanic roots.
ask yourself why not 1-1000
spell the number 1,000
do you see anything there that the numbers 1-999 don't have?
I think that that should make it easy to solve
02 Oct 18
Originally posted by @shallow-bluecorrect
You mean that there's an 'a' in 'thousand' but not in the ones before? That's hardly surprising, given that all those 999 numbers are derived fron only 12 Germanic roots.
02 Oct 18
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Originally posted by @lemondropI didn't see an a in the numbers I wrote. Is that it? I was looking at the wrong end of the alphabet😉
if anyone is interested you can read the short story "1 to 999" by Isaac Asimov
02 Oct 18
Originally posted by @lemondropTook all frigging night😉
I hope you didn't have to spell out all those numbers
02 Oct 18
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Originally posted by @lemondropI have an Asimov story to tell: One of the guys working for a former company I used to work at, a startup, now defunct, called Inplane Photonics, they hired a guy named Malcolm E Lines, a mathematician. He wrote some books, one being 'a number for your thoughs'. He gave me a copy, very interesting. About how you don't need integer bases to make number systems. You can even have negative numbers to make a number system.
lol
lucky for you a didn't require spelling out ten thousand numbers
might still be writing
hope you enjoyed the treat and you should read Asimov's short story
So Isaac Asimov got a copy and was fascinated. They corresponded till Isaac died.