Newsgroups: comp.compression Path: utzoo!utgpu!watserv1!watmath!looking!brad From: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton) Subject: Re: Integer not expressable in less than 13 words Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Date: Fri, 19 Apr 91 15:54:42 GMT Message-ID: <1991Apr19.155442.4840@looking.on.ca> References: <1991Apr16.140125.17898@convex.com> <15869@smoke.brl.mil> <1991Apr18.210832.9918@shl.com> In article <1991Apr18.210832.9918@shl.com> gardner@shl.com (Gardner Buchanan) writes: >>So, what is the least positive integer not expressable in less than 13 >>English words? > >I think it's 121,121,121; assuming you don't use "and": > >One hundred twenty one million one hundred twenty one thousand > 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 > >one hundred twenty one >11 12 13 14 > Maybe I missed the start of this, but isn't this an old paradox? After all, "least positive integer not expressable in less than 13 English words" has 11 words, so in fact there is no such animal. -- Brad Templeton, ClariNet Communications Corp. -- Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473