Biotop Posted December 1, 2016 Report Share Posted December 1, 2016 I am thinking of a number. The number, if spelled out in English, is nine letters long. Exactly 5 of these 9 letters are vowels (a, e, i, o or u). What is the number? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted December 5, 2016 Report Share Posted December 5, 2016 Spoiler for the best I can come up with...so far Reveal hidden contents a couple pi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 That is not the number I am thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 not it, I know...but it was close Reveal hidden contents googolplex 5 vowels, but 10 letters long Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 On 12/6/2016 at 4:01 PM, Pickett said: not it, I know...but it was close Reveal hidden contents googolplex 5 vowels, but 10 letters long Expand Not sure what I was thinking when i wrote that...not even 5 vowels...I'll shut up now ;c) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 Reveal hidden contents If you count "y" (which in this case is a vowel): eighty-one But you didn't have "y" listed, so I'm guessing not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 6, 2016 Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 Reveal hidden contents If you count "y" (which in this case is a vowel): eighty-one But you didn't have "y" listed, so I'm guessing not... Reveal hidden contents If you count "y" (which in this case is a vowel): eighty-one But you didn't have "y" listed, so I'm guessing not... Reveal hidden contents If you count "y" (which in this case is a vowel): eighty-one But you didn't have "y" listed, so I'm guessing not... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 6, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2016 No "Y" at all in the number. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 curious as to how obscure these are or even the pronunciation allowed for these. Here are some examples of what I would consider "valid", but probably not what you're looking for: Reveal hidden contents π/1 = "pi over one" 1.1 = "one dot one" 0.0 = "oh point oh" So it really comes down to what "words" or "interpretations" are allowed here? Are greek letters allowed? are "non-standard" pronunciations of digits allowed? What about mathematical symbols? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 The number I am thinking of is specific, one word and familiar to everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted December 7, 2016 Report Share Posted December 7, 2016 On 12/7/2016 at 2:18 PM, Biotop said: The number I am thinking of is specific, one word and familiar to everyone. Expand Well then I've got nothing...closest I can think of that even relates to numbers is Reveal hidden contents solitaire Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 10, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2016 On 12/7/2016 at 7:35 PM, Pickett said: Well then I've got nothing...closest I can think of that even relates to numbers is Reveal hidden contents solitaire This is not the number I am thinking of. Expand On 12/7/2016 at 7:35 PM, Pickett said: Well then I've got nothing...closest I can think of that even relates to numbers is Reveal hidden contents solitaire Expand The number I am thinking of is specific, one word and familiar to everyone. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Wilson Posted December 12, 2016 Report Share Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) Maybe with a bit of cheetahing.....[spoiler="spoiler title here within quotes"]coalition?[/spoiler] Edited December 12, 2016 by Wilson sry my spoilers are gubbed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 14, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 14, 2016 No. That is not the number I am thinking of. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 17, 2016 Puzzles are funny things. You never know who will solve what. I work in a grocery store, and we had our staff Christmas party yesterday. Just for fun, I posed this riddle to the group, explaining how it had been sitting unsolved here for weeks. It did not take long for someone there to give the correct answer. Puzzles are funny things. You never know who will solve what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted December 27, 2016 Author Report Share Posted December 27, 2016 Some hints: Reveal hidden contents The number does not contain a "T" The number does not contain an "S" I e-mailed this riddle to my sister, a computer science professor and math specialist, and she could not solve it. Finally I had to tell her the answer. So the next day she asked some of her students in class the same riddle, and they got it rather quickly. Puzzles are funny things. I guess you never know who will solve what. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Molly Mae Posted April 19, 2017 Report Share Posted April 19, 2017 Reveal hidden contents Is it "nine letters long"? The number doesn't have T or S, it has 5 vowels and consists of 9 different letters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted April 19, 2017 Report Share Posted April 19, 2017 perhaps Reveal hidden contents 111 could be read as one-eleven or Reveal hidden contents 10000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000 might be one-googol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted April 21, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 21, 2017 On 12/5/2016 at 7:16 PM, plainglazed said: Reveal hidden contents a couple pi Neither of those is the number I am thinking of. No hyphen. Expand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 petfit Posted June 4, 2017 Report Share Posted June 4, 2017 Eighty four Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted June 8, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 8, 2017 Per the riddle, the vowels must be among a, e, i, o, and u. The number I am thinking of has no "Y." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Pickett Posted June 9, 2017 Report Share Posted June 9, 2017 Mind telling us (or PMing me) the answer? as it has been 6 months with no correct answers and the participation seems to have dwindled... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 plainglazed Posted June 12, 2017 Report Share Posted June 12, 2017 legalmente? Reveal hidden contents dieciocho? as written in English - Dieciocho means eighteen in Spanish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 Biotop Posted June 17, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2017 On 6/12/2017 at 5:27 PM, plainglazed said: legalmente? Reveal hidden contents dieciocho? as written in English - Dieciocho means eighteen in Spanish. Expand Good answer. But the number I am thinking of is not from another language. It is English. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 phaze Posted June 19, 2017 Report Share Posted June 19, 2017 Reveal hidden contents still not sure of the exact number but I believe it is "a prime one" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0 petfit Posted June 20, 2017 Report Share Posted June 20, 2017 one eleven Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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I am thinking of a number. The number, if spelled out in English, is nine letters long. Exactly 5 of these 9 letters are vowels (a, e, i, o or u).
What is the number?
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