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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(7): Tentative solution REVISED (reply to Sam)

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(In reply to re(6): Tentative solution REVISED (reply to Sam) by Sam)

I've looked back at some of those... SK was most humorous about it... citing examples of where the person messed up...

Take this and this for example.

He made me laugh anyway.

Posted by Thalamus on 2004-04-16 03:40:57

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