FOUR has four letters. It is therefore a self-descriptive number. TWENTY TWO has nine letters. It is not self-descriptive. However 22 = 17 + 1 + 4 which in words is SEVENTEEN ADD ONE ADD FOUR which has exactly twenty two letters and is now therefore self-descriptive. Gordon Hill (2ZP) managed to create self-descriptive forms for all the integers from 8 to 20. Here are his solutions: |
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Alina Popa (2ZP) used Romanian numbers to create a quite unique list of self-descriptive numbers. Here are the names of the numbers and operations in the Romanian language (Some fonts may not cope!) |
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Here is Alina's list of Roumanian Self-descriptive Numbers: |
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