Some Special Primes
If you want to write with letters prime numbers, and then you
sort them alphabetically (ie: 2 gives TWo, which is alphabetically
after 3 THree...), you might want to know which are the first
primes, depending on the language. Here are my findings:
- Slovenian
- 10009 : desettisocdevet
- English
- 8 000 000 851 : eight billion eight hundred fifty one,
for american english, and
8 000 000 000 887 : eight billion eight hundred eighty seven, for
british english (Thanks to Chris Dodd who pointed out that EIght is before
ELeven, my spelling sucks!).
- Deutsh
- 808 000 000 823 :
achthundertachtmilliardenachthunderdtreiundzwanzig (!) or
8 808 000 000 883
achtbillionenachthundertachtmilliardenachthundertdreiundachtzig
(Thanks to Gavin Lowe for pointing out that achthundertelf (811) was
not the best)
- French (and proably spanish and italian too)
- 105 105 000 105 167 : cent cinq mille cent cinq milliards cent cinq
mille cent soixante sept, using `usual' french, or
100 000 000 105
157: cent billion cent cinq mille cent cinquante sept, using `legal' french.
- Finnish
- It seems to be infinite : biljoona biljoonaa biljoonaa ...
If you know some other languages or have a correction, please contact me.
Prime factors decomposition
Maintained by dl, Last change Sept, 11th 1995.