The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?
The English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?
I have no idea how one could find this out.
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I don't know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.
43 0 ReplyI was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc:
=LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1
(row 1 being a header row)Language Word Digit Danish To 2 Danish Tre 3 Danish Fire 4 Dutch Vier 4 English Four 4 Finnish Viisi 5 French N/A N/A German Vier 4 Indonesian N/A N/A Italian Tre 3 Norwegian To 2 Norwegian Tre 3 Norwegian Fire 4 Polish N/A N/A Portuguese Cinco 5 Spanish Cinco 5 Swedish Tre 3 Swedish Fyra 4 Turkish Dört 4 34 0 ReplyIn Hungarian, it's "négy", but it's actually only three letters, n, é and gy.
8 0 ReplyThis is a clever solution
6 0 Reply二 (pronounced and romanized to "ni") is 2 in Japanese and has two letters kinda
Same with 三(San)
5 1 ReplyWe getcha but that's romaji which is a transliteration of the syllable sounds.
1 0 ReplyYeah, but saying 一 has one Kanji and is One would be the only candidate and that's a little boring :p
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