Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000
From: Jim Geary
To: cgp
Subject: Numbers spelled out

Someone wrote:

Q:  What word equals the sum of its letters spelled out in Scrabble tiles?
A:  TWELVE (1+4+1+1+4+1 = 12)
So I reply:

And who can ever forget:

89  == THE SQUARE ROOT OF SEVEN THOUSAND AND NINE HUNDRED AND TWENTY ONE

42  ~= THE LOG BASE TWO OF FOUR TRILLION

117 == THE VALUE OF THE FUNCTION THREE K SQUARED INTEGRATED 
       OVER THE RANGE TWO TO FIVE

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