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.

Letter A

 

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  • Mr Hamshaw-Hart, Beverley Grammar School
  • Friday, June 08, 2007
  • "Alphanumbetical words.
    First, effort."
  • Class 1GS2, The Gordon Schools
  • Thursday, May 08, 2008
  • "We found 'forty'."
  • Jenny Meckiffe, Herne Junior School
  • Sunday, June 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!"
  • Nick Peters, Uplands Junior School
  • Friday, June 27, 2008
  • "Taking things to a cross curricular level, in French we could have deux, cinq or dix ?"
  • YR 8, Alcester High School
  • Wednesday, June 10, 2009
  • "Also ein and dos as other languages."

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Answers

There is only one number:

FORTY

Can you find any other alphanumbetical mathematical words?

Letter A

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