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What is Unique About this Number?

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Altfish
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What is Unique About this Number?

#1 Post by Altfish » January 17th, 2014, 9:12 am

This came up in last night's pub quiz, we didn't get it.

What is unique about this number...

8,549,176,320

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Re: What is Unique About this Number?

#2 Post by Dave B » January 17th, 2014, 9:17 am

Interesting that!

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Re: What is Unique About this Number?

#3 Post by jaywhat » January 17th, 2014, 4:18 pm

It is every digit from 0 to 9, and quite obviously it is err.... well ...... err!

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Re: What is Unique About this Number?

#4 Post by Altfish » January 18th, 2014, 9:36 am

Better give the answer for those who didn't google it

The numbers are in alphabetical order!

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Re: What is Unique About this Number?

#5 Post by jaywhat » November 16th, 2014, 2:09 pm

8,462,059,173

this is also unique

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Re: What is Unique About this Number?

#6 Post by thundril » December 19th, 2014, 2:29 pm

Doesn't every number have to be unique, in the sense that if there were two numbers that were the same, they'd be the same number? (I know I know. Nobody loves a smart-arse.)
Maybe you mean 'what's interesting about that number?' To which I have to confess I haven't a clue.
But interesting numbers also have a similar problem..
Suppose you say 1 is interesting because (pick any interesting fact about the number 1.)....
and then 2 is interesting for some other reason, like it's the only even prime, or something....
And keep going till you get to a number about which you can find nothing interesting to say. Well that's the lowest uninteresting number, which qualifies as interesting, so it isn't an uninteresting number after all.... :wave:

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