Start spelling each word as you count, starting with one.
How high do you have to count before you reach a number that has the letter "a" in it?
(In reply to
Pedantry by DJ)
Hmmmm... this is a similar argument to the one in the 'Division by three' problem. Since Ravi has already given us the start point of 'one' it rules out languages other than English, but the issue becomes which 'English'.
From my understanding in American English the convention is as DJ states above (ie 101 is written as 'one hundred one'), but in modern English English the convention is different such that 101 is written 'one hundred and one'. To further confuse matters, archaic English has a numbering convention similar to German such that 21 is written one and twenty - (think of the 'Sing a song of sixpence' nursery rhyme). I have no idea what conventions are used in other types of English (eg Australia, New Zealand, Canada, etc).
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Posted by fwaff
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re: Pedantry
