Oddly alphabetical numbers

[bonanova]

It's Saturday night.

You're a puzzle solver and have no social life, so you amuse yourself by spelling out the first 10¹⁰ integers.

You know, like ... one, two, three, ... twenty-one, ... four hundred thirty-two, ...
nine thousand five hundred thirteen, ... two million ninety thousand three hundred five, ...
four billion three hundred seventeen million, forty-five thousand two hundred twenty-nine, ...

Then you hit Sort to get them in alphabetical order.
[Edit: spaces and hyphens are ignored.]

What's the first odd number in your sorted list?

[Nikyma]

eight billion eighteen million eight hundred eighty five

edit: Long solved, and I'm wrong. oh well.

Edited June 9, 2008 by Nikyma

[Guest]

It's Saturday night.

You're a puzzle solver and have no social life, so you amuse yourself by spelling out the first 10¹⁰ integers.

You know, like ... one, two, three, ... twenty-one, ... four hundred thirty-two, ...

nine thousand five hundred thirteen, ... two million ninety thousand three hundred five, ...

four billion three hundred seventeen million, forty-five thousand two hundred twenty-nine, ...

Then you hit Sort to get them in alphabetical order.

[Edit: spaces and hyphens are ignored.]

What's the first odd number in your sorted list?

eighty five

[Guest]

what about a billion and one?

[Guest]

what about a billion and one?

That would be one billion one to be grammatically correct, and that is clearly not it, as anything with eight is before it. The "a" is not considered and I don't think you can start with just "billion" it has to be one billion.