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Friday, June 02, 2006

What's next?

What is the next integer in this series?

1,000
1,000,000,000
1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000
100
1
?

For a hint, look at this riddle for a clue.

BTW, I'll be on vacation next week, so my posting may be sporadic. I believe I'll be able to do so, but I'm just not sure.

3 comments:

  1. The series lists the smallest positive integer that contains the first appearance of a letter in the alphabet, starting with "A".

    one thousAnd
    one Billion
    one oCtillion
    one hunDred
    onE

    thus

    4 (Four)

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  2. 4, 8, 3, 5, (how many zeros in a jillion?)

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