I’m Romanian and I recently came across the definition of bangmaid which fits me perfectly, so that’s how my username came to be.

      • schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de
        46·
        7 days ago

        I know you didn’t mean this seriously, but it’s easy to see:

        • zero has 4 letters
        • one has 3 letters
        • two has 3 letters
        • three has 5 letters
        • four has 4 letters
        • five has 4 letters
        • six has 3 letters
        • seven has 5 letters
        • eight has 5 letters
        • nine has 4 letters
        • ten has 3 letters
        • eleven has 6 letters
        • twelve has 6 letters
        • after this, there are no possible candidates anymore: the next numbers are all just 3-9 (with slight spelling variations) followed by 4-letter “teen”, giving us at most 9 letters, too few to have equal value to the numbers they name
        • after that there is no possible way to get to the high values of the numbers they name by combining words like “twenty” or “thirty” or “hundred” or “thousand” or “million” with the previous ones
        • WR5@lemmy.world
          18·
          7 days ago

          Negative fifteen only works for absolute value, but it’s fun to point out

          • thallamabond@lemmy.world
            4·
            7 days ago

            Negative fifteen = -15 …does it not?

            Edit: leaving my mistake, Negative fifteen is 15 characters, not -15

        • Dave@lemmy.nz
          2·
          7 days ago

          How do we know there isn’t a number that was named by a mathematician like googol or Graham’s number, where unlike defining it as a 1 with a hundred zeros after it, it’s instead defined by it’s spelling?

          Here’s one: the number seven thousand three hundred and seven is otherwise known as Da…ve’s number, which is spelt with a D and then seven thousand three hundred and three A’s, followed by ve’s. It’s a made up name for a number but so is googol so I think it should be a valid candidate.

    • Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      6 days ago

      -9 (minus nine) and a couple of other negative numbers kind of do it too, at a push. There was a thread about this a while ago…