Thursday, September 16, 2010

Much Ado About A, B, C.......

My friend, Fernando, sent me this email. I must confess I have also not realised
this new realisation about a,b, c.

What a joy to receive forwarded emails which teach me new things everyday! Enjoy!


"Do you know ....

This is awesome - I bet you didn't know this...

Letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99

(Letter 'd' comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters 'a', 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999

(Letter 'a' comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters 'b' & 'c' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999

(Letter 'b' comes for the first time in Billion)

And
Letter 'c' does not appear anywhere in in the spellings of entire English Counting

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