I have no idea how one could find this out.

  • xylogx@lemmy.world
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    17 days ago

    The answer to your question is zero yet at this he same time zero is not an answer to your question.

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    18 days ago

    I don’t know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.

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    17 days ago

    No. As a matter of fact, this is a neat party trick I used to use.

    Start with literally any number, and count the letters to match it. You will always end up at four because it’s the only English word and Arabic numeral represented with equivalent letters.

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    18 days ago

    Yes: Five has four letters. Nine has four letters.

    There are no more.

    If you meant to ask if there are any more whole numbers with the same number of letters in the name as the number, then the answer is no. It is fairly simple to check - you only have to look at the numbers 0-30 before it becomes clear no other number will fit this pattern.

    If you went into fractions like 20.12325 then there will be many numbers where all the letters added would get close but the fraction itself would mean you couldn’t quite reach the exact number as you can’t have fractions of letters.

    If you included negative numbers then “minus eleven” has 11 letters. Minus thirteen has 13 letters. It seems to again break down once you go beyond 13, and its dodgy to include negative numbers as you can’t have negative letters.

    So, no.