6
-9 (minus nine) kind of works if we’re getting desperate.
"Negative Fifteen" and "Negative Seventeen" also work in the same way
But negative fifteen has 15 letters, not -15
neetfif evitagen has -15 letters, but i dont think its a number
Flive has flive letters.
sephene
Yeah. Fivee. Siiiix. Seeveen. Eeeeight. Niiiiiiine.
The answer to your question is zero yet at this he same time zero is not an answer to your question.
two to power of four = 16
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.
"party'"
hmmm
Okay, it was my neat math class trick. I was a lame nerd, you caught me... My calculus teacher thought it was cool okay??? Lol
I don't know in English, but in Spanish the word for five, Cinco, has five letters.
Nien.
Remind me of the classic sequence where every number leads to 4.
10 -> 3 -> 5 -> 4
1024 -> 21 -> 9 -> 4
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.
Sigh. Time to introduce real letters that can be negative and fractional.
To your first point: zero also has four letters.
ITT: lots of people who misunderstood a clever but badly-phrased question.
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