Puzzling Asked by smci on July 7, 2021
This is a multilingual generalized follow-on to “What number is that? Asks Grandpa”, which I restate as:
“What is the smallest positive English integer N, for which if you take its WORD anagram and subtract the number N itself, you get some positive integer quantity:
Anagram of the number – number > zero
So what’s the smallest such positive integer in French? German? Spanish? Italian? Dutch? Swedish? Esperanto? etc.
In Mandarin Chinese:
十二 and 二十
Am I cheating?
In Braille:
In Arabic:
In Sino-Korean Cardinal Numerals written in Hangul:
In Morse Code:
In Roman Numerals:
For Binaries if...
Note for Latin:
Note for Hindi, maybe this is gonna help someone on this one:
Correct answer by JKHA on July 7, 2021
I wasn't sure whether hyphens counted.
Croatian:
Dutch:
Esperanto:
Estonian:
French:
Hungarian:
Italian:
Norwegian:
Portuguese:
Spanish:
Swedish:
These were sourced from this website.
Answered by William Pennanti on July 7, 2021
In Dutch:
Not sure why William found such a large number. We're only a small country after all ...
In German:
In Russian:
In French (only slightly smaller than William's entry, and it's not a digit anagram):
Answered by Glorfindel on July 7, 2021
In German, I'm pretty sure the answer is:
Answered by Jeremy Dover on July 7, 2021
In Laádan, a constructed language:
The source for these words is here. Laádan is a feminist constructed language which was used in the science fiction series Native Tongue (Wikipedia).
Answered by Toby Mak on July 7, 2021
Norwegian has the trivial
Answered by htmlcoderexe on July 7, 2021
Turkish
Answered by Orçun Çolak on July 7, 2021
As in other languages, the least in Hebrew is
In traditional Hebrew numerals (still used today for some purposes), the least is
Answered by msh210 on July 7, 2021
In Czech:
In Polish:
Answered by trolley813 on July 7, 2021
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