Puzzle from yesterdays Sun

If you wrote down numbers, excluding the word and, how long would it be before you got to the letter A?

I don't know the answer but I bet one of you clever lot do

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How long? What-in minutes?

Thousand-I think

 

One thousand berfore you get a letter A Sandra...I Think

 

Agree.. one thousand.... just as welll cos I cant count any higher!

 

I suppose I was expecting some sort of trick answer-like the 1984 or 1985 UK one pound which one is worth more? question.

 

Four.

Uno, dos, tres, quatro

 

Hi, sorry I haven't been back before now. Claire it isn't 'thousand' cos the question states 'excluding the word ''and'' '. No I don't think it meant in time either rather that if you were writing down each number in words, but maybe that's the trick part of the question. I still don't know!!!

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Does'e the And rule not mean 100 and one?

 

How about 'Half' or 'Quarter' (they're numbers, albeit fractions not integers)

Methinks the answer is either 'Thousand' or never. (after all the 'and' is not a word in this context)

Of course, we're assuming the numbers are to base 10, A in Base 16 (Hexadecimal) is 10

 

I don't know????? I'm off to look at the Suns website to see if I can find out, will let you know.

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Flip......just looked but then realised that this answer is revealed until next Saturday:( It's getting to me,lol.

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Well, if it helps, the logic goes something like this (IMHO):

(a) None of the digits between Nought (Zero, Nill, Nothing) and Nine have an "a"
(b) Numbers between Nine and Nineteen, with the exception of Ten, Eleven and Twelve all end with 'teen' (no "a"s)
(c) Twenty to Ninety have no "a"s
(d) Numbers between one Hundred and Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine are made up of (a), (b) and (c) above, together with the prefix / suffix of "hundred" (therefore none can have an "a")
(e) Thousand is the first number, starting at Nought, to have the "a"

Of course, you could have minus one (AKA Negative one) but we are talking about The Sun

 

The answer....one thousand, so big apologies for saying it couldn't be that:( I thought that because the question said 'exluding the word 'and ' that it couldn't be thousand. Should have known it would be simple but it seems a rather stupid question now, and how the mates in the question couldn't get the answer is unbelievable! Never mind.

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