The continued strange thoughts I get. :=3

[lionkingcmsl]

I was thinking about letters, again. This time on the drive home.

This time was the use of letters in numbers in the English language.
I came up with the following list of letters being used, with the first instance, I can think of, listed.

A = thousand
B = billion
C = octillion
D = thousand - hundred by ceruleanst
E = zero
F = four
G = vigintillion = 10^63 (U.S. and British) 10^120 (Continental Europe)- eight by ceruleanst
H = thousand - three by ceruleanst
I = five
J = Unknown
K = Unknown
L = eleven
M = million
N = one
O = zero
P = septillion
Q = quadrillion
R = zero
S = six
T = two
U = four
V = five
W = two
X = six
Y = twenty
Z = zero

So there you have it. Twenty-four of the twenty-six letters are used in the names of numbers. If I have missed an earlier instance of an number or have forgotten actual numbers using "J" or "K" please let me know.

And after searching Wikipedia's article on large number names ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Names_of_large_numbers ) it seems J and K are not listed anywhere.
BTW, 101 is not said as one hundred and one. It is correctly stated as one hundred one.
Yes, my mind works in weird ways. :=3

Comments

[ceruleanst.livejournal.com]

D: hundred. G: eight. H: three.

The article you linked includes the Russ Rowlett proposal, which has plenty of K starting with "oktillion", but I wouldn't count it, as I don't expect anyone has adopted it. That's also where the system first fails as an unambiguous alternative by introducing a homophone for "octillion" to mean a different number.