Interesting Facts about the First Four Letters of the Alphabet

You may have seen this before, but it is still awesome - I did not know this. The letters 'a', 'b', 'c' & 'd' do not appear anywhere in the spellings of numbers 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 'c' does not appear anywhere in the spellings of entire English Counting!

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