Additional trivia: ten to the 27th power is "one octillion". That's the smallest whole number with the letter C in its English name. Every other letter except J, K and Z appears in the name of some number smaller than 10^27.
Here's the complete list of the smallest numbers with each of the remaining 23 letters:
B one billion (ten to the ninth power)
C one octillion (ten to the 27th power)
D one hundred (ten to the second power)
E one
F four
G eight
H three
I five
L eleven
M one million (ten to the sixth power)
N one
O one
P one septillion (ten to the 24th power)
Q one quadrillion (ten to the 15th power)
R three
S six
T two
U four
V five
W twelve
X six
Y twenty
(Someone is bound to jump in at this point and say that "a hundred", or maybe "one hundred and one", contain the letter A, but that's not how I was taught. "And" only appears in numbers with fractions or decimals attached.)
Ron Draney said:
That's the smallest whole number with the letter C in its English name. Every other letter except J, K and Z appears in the name of some number smaller than 10^27.
Hey, what about kajillion, bazillion and the analogous one kajillionth, one bazillionth?
And just what power ten are those numbers, hmm?
You can always decide to include "zero" in your counting if you feel you have to use the Z, but J and K are out of the running.
(I don't see a way to edit an existing post to correct an error, but the entry for W should be "two", not "twelve".)
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