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Outstanding numbers (Posted on 2010-04-06)

1 and 40 share a certain feature, not exactly the same, but closely related. No other number exhibits this feature. What is it?

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The letters comprising "ONE" are in descending order.

"FORTY" is made up of letters in ascending order.

(assuming a numerical assignment A=1, B=2 etc)

Posted by Andre on 2010-04-06 11:43:53

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