Surely the best known anagam of this kind in English is the one you quote but minus the "hundred": TWELVE + ONE = ELEVEN + TWO. However, in Spanish I found: U+N+O + C+A+T+O+R+C+E = C+U+A+T+R+O + O+N+C+E (1) (14) (4) (11) and D+O+S + T+R+E+C+E = T+R+E+S + D+O+C+E (2) (13) (3) (12) This leads to compound forms such as: 30 = UNO + DOS + TRECE + CATORCE = CUATRO + TRES + ONCE + DOCE = 30 30 = UNO + TRES + DOCE + CATORCE = DOS + CUATRO + ONCE + TRECE = 30 Lee Sallows At 09:25 AM 10/2/2008 -0400, you wrote:
Some English names for numbers can be anagrammed to other numbers.
There are some trivial cases like 67 = 76 (SIXTY SEVEN = SEVENTY SIX) that just involve splitting and rearranging compound words.
Then there are slightly more interesting cases like 112 = 211 (ONE HUNDRED TWELVE = TWO HUNDRED ELEVEN) but this still corresponds to anagramming the digits of the numbers.
What is the smallest pair of English numbers that are anagrams without the underlying numbers being anagrams? The best I could do is 1,008,020,068 = 10,010,082,086 (ONE BILLION EIGHT MILLION TWENTY THOUSAND SIXTY EIGHT = TEN BILLION TEN MILLION EIGHTY TWO THOUSAND EIGHTY SIX) but I suspect there is a smaller solution.
I'm not a polyglot, so what are the smallest solutions in other languages?
Erich Friedman
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