Alphanumbetical

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How many Alphanumbetical numbers can you find? These are numbers which when written as words have all their letters in alphabetical order.

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"Alphanumbetical words.
First, effort."

Mr Hamshaw-Hart, Beverley Grammar School
Friday, June 08, 2007

 

"We found 'forty'."

Class 1GS2, The Gordon Schools
Thursday, May 08, 2008

 

"Thank you for this! I have used selective ones with my year four class and they have really enjoyed the challenge. We oarticularly liked Friday's one, finding the closest number sentence for 2008, great!"

Jenny Meckiffe, Herne Junior School
Sunday, June 08, 2008

 

"Taking things to a cross curricular level, in French we could have deux, cinq or dix ?"

Nick Peters, Uplands Junior School
Friday, June 27, 2008

 

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Answers

There is only one number: FORTY

Can you find any other alphanumbetical mathematical words?

Here are some alphanumbetical mathematical words: add, foot, loss, can you think of any more?