a device for turning coffee into theorems: A couple days ago...
while browsing the math tag I came across the proposition
4 is the only number in the English Language that contains the same number of letters as its name. But there’s more going on here. Choose any number whatsoever and count the number of letters in its name to get…
This is pretty cool actually! The only correction that I have is that when saying any number above one hundred the correct way of saying it (mathematically) is “number hundred number-y number” so it would be “seven hundred seventy seven” and not “seven hundred and seventy seven”. The “and” is supposed to be used to signify a decimal point but its become common to say it when speaking in hundreds. So that would take your 27 calculations a bit off.
(Source: harmonicanalysis)
