Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 30 days agoThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?message-squaremessage-square38fedilinkarrow-up142arrow-down17file-text
arrow-up135arrow-down1message-squareThe English word "four" has 4 letters. Are there any other numbers where the English name for them has that many letters?Nougat@fedia.io to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 30 days agomessage-square38fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNONE@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up23·30 days agoI don’t know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.
minus-squareSatyrSack@feddit.orglinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·edit-230 days agoI was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc: =LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1 (row 1 being a header row) Language Word Digit Danish To 2 Danish Tre 3 Danish Fire 4 Dutch Vier 4 English Four 4 Finnish Viisi 5 French N/A N/A German Vier 4 Indonesian N/A N/A Italian Tre 3 Norwegian To 2 Norwegian Tre 3 Norwegian Fire 4 Polish N/A N/A Portuguese Cinco 5 Spanish Cinco 5 Swedish Tre 3 Swedish Fyra 4 Turkish Dört 4
minus-squareℍ𝕂-𝟞𝟝@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·30 days agoIn Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.
I don’t know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.
I was able to come up with a list of similar scenarios for various languages using a simple formula in LibreOffice Calc:
=LEN(A2)=ROW(A2)-1(row 1 being a header row)This is a clever solution
In Hungarian, it’s “négy”, but it’s actually only three letters, n, é and gy.