Talk:Ban number

This article was nominated for deletion on 5 November 2012 (UTC). The result of the discussion was keep.

This page was proposed for deletion by op47 (talk · contribs) on 5 November 2012 with the comment:
Article is no more than a dictionary definition and a non notable one at that.
It was contested by Gandalf61 (talk · contribs) on 2012-11-05T22:13Z with the comment:
rmv prod;copyedit; add OEIS links; add reference

British/American English?[edit]

Two difficulties: First, e.g. 101 is "one hundred one" in US English but "one hundred and one" in UK English. So it seems to be an aban number in the US but not in the UK. Second. 2 x 10^21 is "two sextillion" in short scale but "two thousand trillion" in long scale, so eban doesn't seem to be well-defined either. Presumably similar difficulties arise with the other ban number concepts. Should the article mention these.

Notability[edit]

Is this concept notable? Richard Pinch (talk) 20:12, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Draft[edit]

I've drafted a shorter version of this article at User:Accelerometer/Ban number. It condenses the article quite a bit. Thoughts? Accelerometer ^T / _C 17:46, 8 July 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Consonants[edit]

What about the bban numbers, cban numbers, etc., banning consonants? GeoffreyT2000 (talk) 17:23, 19 April 2015 (UTC)[reply]

OEIS lists TBan numbers, but no other consonants that I can see. Many letter bans would of course be not very interesting as they do not occur much anyhow. For example, CBan numbers would be just all of the numbers until you hit the decillions. ZBan numbers would just be every number except zero. JBan and KBan would be all numbers since those letters never appear. More interesting ones might be LBan, NBan, RBan and SBan, which occur at fairly low values with enough regularity to be significantly different from other sequences. Lurlock (talk) 15:14, 13 December 2015 (UTC)[reply]