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Multilanguage generalization of "What number is that? Asks Grandpa"

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

  • Hence the smallest legal number in English would be 76 (SEVENTY-SIX), since 67 (SIXTY-SEVEN) is also a legal number, and 76 – 67 is positive. (Doesn’t work for TWENTY, THIRTY, FORTY, FIFTY since their tens-multiple is spelled differently to their units number. And of course teens are irregular in most languages).
  • No archaic spellings, e.g. ‘FOURTY’ is not allowed.
  • In order to keep this objective we probably have to exclude numerical terms like ‘OVER-FIFTY’, ‘DUO’, ‘DECADE’, ‘DOZEN’, ‘CENTURY’, ‘MYRIAD’ etc., let alone subjective/cryptic ones like ‘SENIOR’ = OVER-FIFTY-FIVE, ‘TEENAGER’ = $<$your choice of number between 13..19$>$
  • and ZERO/NULL/NUL/NOTHING/NIX/… probably has a very high number of subjective/cryptic synonyms.
  • Ignoring hyphens
  • Either ignoring accents, or optionally using their accepted ASCII transliterations, e.g. ‘ä’ -> AE,’ø’ -> OE, ‘ß’ -> SS

So what’s the smallest such positive integer in French? German? Spanish? Italian? Dutch? Swedish? Esperanto? etc.

9 Answers

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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