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Truthful Numbers

Posted in Language, Science & Math by Greg Ross on February 25th, 2009
  • FOUR contains four letters.
  • TEN is spelled with ten raised dots in Braille.
  • TWELVE is worth 12 points in Scrabble.
  • FIFTEEN is spelled with 15 dots and dashes in International Morse Code.

TWENTY-NINE contains 29 straight lines — if you don’t count the hyphen.