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Close to a million (Posted on 2005-07-18) Difficulty: 1 of 5
The first 26 primes (2, 3, 5, ...) can be put in correspondence with the letters A through Z, so the common English word CAB would be the product 5 * 2 * 3 = 30. Using this code, what´s your guess to a common English word that comes closest to a million ? I found one very, very close. Can you beat mine ?

To help you, here are the 26 first primes and their correspondence to the alphabet :
 2 - A      3 - B      5 - C      7 - D     11 - E
13 - F     17 - G     19 - H     23 - I     29 - J
31 - K     37 - L     41 - M     43 - N     47 - O
53 - P     59 - Q     61 - R     67 - S     71 - T
73 - U     79 - V     83 - W     89 - X     97 - Y     101 - Z

See The Solution Submitted by pcbouhid    
Rating: 3.4000 (5 votes)

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re(2): Another great word Comment 12 of 12 |
(In reply to re: Another great word by Ady TZIDON)

Actually, although he states the value as 100,000 but if you count there are actually six repetitions of 'ac', so the word he made up really is a million.
  Posted by Jer on 2015-08-09 22:14:12

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