السبت، 6 مارس 2010

The words for numbers

This is a most curious observation:
In English, the name of each integer shares a letter with EACH of its neighbors. ONE shares an O with TWO, TWO shares a T with THREE … and so on to infinity.
One
Two
Three
Four
Five
Six
Seven
Eight
Nine
Ten
Eleven
Twelve
.......teens
Twenty-...
Thirty-... etc. etc.

Found at Futility Closet, which posts lots of mathematical curiosities.

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