A Puzzle: Mathematical spellings
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@lekoman its not certain you can set up an isomorphic rule with the letters to describe the order of the magnitude using more and more letters in place of numbers i.e. just making the words infinitely long in order to describe them... so for example you could set up a rule where 10^N is represented by a word that has the same number of digits as N with A representing 1 and so on.... this system is countable but still infinite.
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@theoriginalwasa That is not an unlikely case, it is a certain case if we are forced to name all of the orders of magnitude. ;) Now, if it's restricted to "in English" (which I don't remember seeing when I read the description the first time) then I suppose we can leave out all of the non-named options.
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This means that whilst 40 is the only one below 100, forty thousand is out because of THOUSAND, forty million is out because of MILLION...etc...I will concede that because not all orders of magnitude have names in the unlikely case where an order of magnitude fits then this number will be ok and so will forty *enter magnitude* in the case where the order of magnitude be named something like YYYYZZ or something.
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The only cases where this breaks down are for the tens orders of magnitude. Therefore all that is needed is an exhaustion of all numbers to 100, then metric naming conventions take over which repeat previous names. However, since not all orders of magnitude can be named in a finite list of words there must be numbers without a name.
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@lekoman the numbers count to infinity yes... but the naming convention repeats itself. This means that if you have the number ONE and it violates alphabetical order (or in general consider that the number N contradicts alphabetical order) then any order of magnitude thereafter that includes the number ONE (or N) will also contradict it. Therefore, ONE thousand is out, ONE million is out ETC and anything with these orders of magnitude.
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the imaginary number I
(its the square root of negative one)
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what is it?
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Accent as in to talk in an accent
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hi as in a greeting
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zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz as in to fall asleep
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No its spelled "Forty" :)
Despite being related to the word "four" (4), 40 is spelled "forty", not "fourty". This is because etymologically (and still in accents without the horse-hoarse merger), the words have different vowels, "forty" containing a contraction in the same way that "fifty" contains a contraction of "five". The letters of the word "forty" are in alphabetical order; this is the only number that has this linguistic property in English.
Straight from wiki :P
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