DID YOU KNOW following facts about COUNTING in English language?

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’, ‘c’ & ‘d’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 99.
(Letter ‘d’ comes for the first time in Hundred)

Letters ‘a’, ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999.
(Letter ‘a’ comes for the first time in Thousand)

Letters ‘b’ & ‘c’ do not appear anywhere in the spellings of 1 to 999,999,999.
(Letter ‘b’ comes for the first time in Billion)

And Letter …

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Here is one example of such a online spam. When you click on this authentic-looking link, you would be taken to some strange spamming site…

Please SPREAD the word. Note that YAHOO and any other email service provider (like Hotmail, Rediff) WILL NEVER contact you with this type of information. DO NOT encourage spam and DO NOT click on any link in an unknown email… If you do so, you may lose all your precious data to …

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I have recently penned down a few pointers that will help all of us to achieve what we dream with relatively less pains. Note that these are based on my own experience…

Mumbai is at an average elevation of 10-15 meters above sea level and receives an annual rainfall of about 2,200 mm per year, of which almost 50% is recorded in July every year. I am sure everyone would recollect the tragic 26th of July, 2005 when the rains created a havoc all over Mumbai bringing this metropolis to a grinding halt - for 3 consecutive days! With a record rainfall of 944mm in a single day, it caused tremendous losses …

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<< continued from PART 4 of this series…

I have recently penned down a few pointers that will help all of us to achieve what we dream with relatively less pains. Note that these are based on my own experience…

>> How to achieve your dreams series continued…

Why do we blog? This is the question that has puzzled me since long time and I have tried my best to find out various answers to it. I am thrilled at the outcome. Many people used to blog because they just loved the idea of having their own personal space on the Internet. With the advent of Internet advertising, pioneered by Google AdSense, the focus shifted to making a few bucks out of it. I am part of this …

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