bonanova Posted February 27, 2014 Report Share Posted February 27, 2014 Consider the numbers from one to one million: 1, 2, 3, ..., 999998, 999999, 1000000. What is remarkable about the numbers 40, 8, and 2202? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rainman Posted April 8, 2014 Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 If you wrote them in alphabetical order, "eight" would come first and "two thousand two hundred and two" would come last. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 7, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2014 The solution is indicated by the title. It would be great if whoever marked it -1 found the solution. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 17, 2014 It has to do with ORDER. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 For starters, think about just the first number. In Columbia 40 would be replaced by 2. In Dusseldorf 40 would be replaced by 1. This is a good puzzle. Really. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 phil1882 Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 got no clue really. sorry to say. don't know what location has to do with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 k-man Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 the letters spelling out the numbers and the order of these letters in the alphabet. "Forty" is the first number that has all letters in the same order as they appear in the English alphabet. "Dos" has the same property in Spanish and "Ein" in German. No idea how 2202 fits into this, but I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Rob_G Posted March 31, 2014 Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 the letters spelling out the numbers and the order of these letters in the alphabet. "Forty" is the first number that has all letters in the same order as they appear in the English alphabet. "Dos" has the same property in Spanish and "Ein" in German. No idea how 2202 fits into this, but I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out. Eight has the vowels in order followed by the consonants in order. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 the letters spelling out the numbers and the order of these letters in the alphabet. "Forty" is the first number that has all letters in the same order as they appear in the English alphabet. "Dos" has the same property in Spanish and "Ein" in German. No idea how 2202 fits into this, but I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out. Great - that's the "orderly" connection the puzzle alludes to. 40 is not just the first, but the only, number with that property. Same with dos and ein, which I thought was interesting. That's the first part, and now the properties of the next two numbers are sure to follow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted March 31, 2014 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2014 the letters spelling out the numbers and the order of these letters in the alphabet. "Forty" is the first number that has all letters in the same order as they appear in the English alphabet. "Dos" has the same property in Spanish and "Ein" in German. No idea how 2202 fits into this, but I'm sure someone will be able to figure it out. Eight has the vowels in order followed by the consonants in order. Consider the next two numbers as a pair, rather than singly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 bonanova Posted April 8, 2014 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2014 If you were to write the numbers as one, two, three, four, .... one million. What would you find? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Consider the numbers from one to one million: 1, 2, 3, ..., 999998, 999999, 1000000.
What is remarkable about the numbers 40, 8, and 2202?
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