Re: Mistake found in gbrany

[Shaun McCance <shaunm gnome org>]

On Tue, 2009-06-16 at 22:39 +0200, Deluxe Chaos wrote:
> There is a translationerror in the german version!
> In the jpg i´ve send to you, there  it says "ziffern"(numerics)
> This means in german: 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 BUT NOT 10,11,12,..
> This aren´t "ziffern"(numerics) this are "Zahlen"(numeray)!
> 
> :-) so the answer should be 0 (or if it is a conuncdrum 1,
>  becouse there are 1 numeric more neede to come to 100 from
>  10;-)) but never ever 19!!

19, 29, 39, 49, 59, 69, 79, and 89 each have one digit "9".
90, 91, 92, 93, 94, 95, 96, 97, and 98 each also have one
digit "9".  99 has two digits "9".  So it's 19.

It's not asking how many times the actual number 9 appears.
It's asking how many times the digit 9 appears as part of
a number.

Your friendly neighborhood mathematician,
Shaun