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Shortest Long Number (Posted on 2004-04-15)

What is the smallest positive integer that cannot be defined in less than twenty-five syllables?

See The Solution Submitted by Sam

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re(2): Tentative solution

| Comment 3 of 49 |

(In reply to re: Tentative solution by Rob)

I updated my answer, replacing "seventy million" with "seventeen million".

:-(

Edited on April 15, 2004, 2:49 pm

Posted by Penny on 2004-04-15 14:46:57

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