I have been asked this question and have absolutley NO idea on what the answer is, someone please help me! Ok here's the question.

If a = 1, b = 2, z = 26, is there a word that when the values of
the letters are multiplied will make a product of one million? For
example, BAD = (2)(1)(4) = 8.

Asked by who? You could write a program to work it out quite easily

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Originally Posted by Capuchin

asked by who? you could write a program to work it out quite easily

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Program? Like what?

Asked by a friend of mine.

Try starting with the factorization of 1,000,000 and break it down from there.



Just a thought.

Well, it would be fairly simple to make a computer program which would run through a word list, working out the product in each case, and output any words that equalled 1000000. You can download dictionary wordlists online.

From Galactus's thought we can see that the word must contain letters from among the following:

B = 2
D = 2^2
H = 2^3
P = 2^4
E= 5
Y =5^2
J = 2 x 5
T = 2^2 x 5

Anyone here a good Scrabble player?

If you had a computer program that could run through word lists, it would only need to search those words containing these letters. I can only come up with nonsense words, like JEETHY.
JETTY is close - it multiplies out to 500,000.

This problem is addressed here:

Math Forum - Ask Dr. Math

When your send your child to bed at night, you send her to "beddy-bye" - that's a million point word!

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Originally Posted by ebaines

From Galactus's thought we can see that the word must contain letters from among the following:

B = 2
D = 2^2
H = 2^3
P = 2^4
E= 5
Y =5^2
J = 2 x 5
T = 2^2 x 5

Anyone here a good Scrabble player?

If you had a computer program that could run through word lists, it would only need to search those words containing these letters. I can only come up with nonsense words, like JEETHY.
JETTY is close - it multiplies out to 500,000.

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By the way... My name is Jeethy

Hello !
I have some cash like 1.000.000$ , grandfather TALUK me and I don't know where to change that cash in my country money because all bank don't accept that ? Who can help me what can I do or what PROPRIETARY
Can I buy with that ? Please help me !

Hello bjondini

Besides that you should never introduce a second topic within a topic, where may that land of abundance be? This sounds like the wellknown Nigerian 'please help me to change my money' trick.

If you are serious start a new topic on this, in which you should provide more information of where you are and what you want. And please : do that on a financial board!

The answer is BET-BYTE or BETABYTE

The answer is BETABYTE