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  • Re: What is the smallest (positive) number, when spelled out, contains no repeated letters and contains each of

    From HenHanna@HenHanna@dev.null to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Wed Mar 5 08:05:10 2025
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    On Mon, 3 Mar 2025 19:21:13 +0000, David Entwistle wrote:

    On Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:45:50 +0000, HenHanna wrote:

    Hint: You can only get A by ......

    going up to Thousand.



    In Yorkshire and Lancashire, we may have "yan o'er bumfit" (1/15 =
    0.06667).

    Lna gna grguren ...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yan_tan_tethera


    Thank you.. the original intended ans. was --------- Five Thousand.
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  • From Ammammata@ammammata@tiscali.it to rec.puzzles,sci.lang,alt.usage.english on Wed Mar 5 12:44:42 2025
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    HenHanna wrote on 05/03/2025 :
    Thank you.. the original intended ans. was --------- Five Thousand.

    shouldn't be "thousandS"?
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