Trick question: What is the highest you can count, before repeating a number.?

Answer 1

you cant

you'd be repeating a number as soon as you said "one"

(repeating as in... you've no doubt said ONE before, right?)

Answer 2

Confined to your own instance of counting the numbers, we can interpret this differently so to summarize the answers I've read/come up with myself...

9 - An inverted six. This would be a play on the written form of the numbers
10 - Repeated 1 and 0. Again, uses the assumption we're dealing with written counting.
11 - "Repeated" 1 twice in one number. See above.
14 - Repeats the word "four". Assumes we're counting aloud.
Or never. Being that this is a trick question we might just be thinking too hard XD

However the question might also suggest not just our isolated incident but also every time anyone has every started counting. This would suggest every number would be a repitition. We also haven't even covered integers below 0 - but I'm not going there :P

Answer 3

9

Answer 4

9

Answer 5

9

Answer 6

9

Answer 7

You can count forever and never repeat a number. No matter how many DIGITS are in a number, it is still a number. The NUMBER 1 is a different NUMBER than 11, just as it is a different NUMBER than 111,111,111,111.

Answer 8

20

Answer 9

The answer could also be 21, since "fourteen" is not four and teen, but one word, the first true number repeat would be twenty one, since the one is not the beginning of another word.

Answer 10

21