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From reader Éric Angelini:

What is the smallest number that doesn’t have a 1 and yet has one?

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2,000,008. It doesn’t contain the digit 1, but its English name contains the string ONE (two milliON Eight).

(Thanks, Éric.)

10/22/2023 UPDATE: Full credit for the answer none! Thanks to the readers who pointed this out.

October 22, 2023October 22, 2023 | Puzzles

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