I have no idea how one could find this out.

  • NONE@lemmy.world
    43·
    28 days ago

    I don’t know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.

    • SatyrSack@feddit.orgEnglish
      34·
      28 days ago

      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)

      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
  • db2@lemmy.world
    32·
    28 days ago

    All of them except one, two, six and ten have 4 letters. Most have more than that, but they also have 4. 😁

  • ivanafterall ☑️@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5·
    28 days ago

    I think the answer is no. It would only be possible with very small numbers. Even by the time you’ve reached 100, it’s not going to happen again.

  • JustAnotherKay@lemmy.world
    131·
    28 days ago

    No. As a matter of fact, this is a neat party trick I used to use.

    Start with literally any number, and count the letters to match it. You will always end up at four because it’s the only English word and Arabic numeral represented with equivalent letters.

  • xylogx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    121·
    28 days ago

    The answer to your question is zero yet at this he same time zero is not an answer to your question.

  • jrs100000@lemmy.worldEnglish
    281·
    28 days ago

    The number one hundred million sixty six thousand five hundred seventy three has exactly 100,066,537 letters.

  • BananaTrifleViolin@lemmy.worldEnglish
    542·
    28 days ago

    Yes: Five has four letters. Nine has four letters.

    There are no more.

    If you meant to ask if there are any more whole numbers with the same number of letters in the name as the number, then the answer is no. It is fairly simple to check - you only have to look at the numbers 0-30 before it becomes clear no other number will fit this pattern.

    If you went into fractions like 20.12325 then there will be many numbers where all the letters added would get close but the fraction itself would mean you couldn’t quite reach the exact number as you can’t have fractions of letters.

    If you included negative numbers then “minus eleven” has 11 letters. Minus thirteen has 13 letters. It seems to again break down once you go beyond 13, and its dodgy to include negative numbers as you can’t have negative letters.

    So, no.