# How to identify the lowest number NOT found on Google.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [September 16, 2004, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699 "2004-09-16T15:18:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/21 "2004-09-30T18:06:15Z")

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> [@glee](#):
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> And now I have **another** hit for this random number.  
> What is going on? :eek:

Blimey, Google works fast round your way 😉

BTW I’m glad my 1104… hunch proved worthwhile!

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**Author:** ![Drew\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Drew\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drew_Blade)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/22 "2004-10-01T00:26:38Z")

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I’m getting 8 hits on 11046726 now. Still no hits on 15343955, however.

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**Author:** ![glee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b5a626/32.png) [@glee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glee)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/23 "2004-10-01T14:19:24Z")

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> [@Drew Blade](#):
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> I’m getting 8 hits on 11046726 now. Still no hits on 15343955, however.

I’ve just got a hit on 15343955!

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**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/24 "2004-10-01T14:43:11Z")

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> [@glee](#):
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> I’ve just got a hit on 15343955!

No matches when I try it.

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**Author:** ![hammos1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ba8739/32.png) [@hammos1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hammos1)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/25 "2004-10-01T15:16:18Z")

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**Colophon** , I think **glee** might be whooshing you.

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**Author:** ![elmwood](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmwood/32/3060_2.png) [@elmwood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elmwood)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/26 "2004-10-01T16:12:52Z")

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Does the script consider commas, European-style decimals used where commas would be in North America, or ISO-style spaces?

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**Author:** ![spinky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@spinky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spinky)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/27 "2004-10-01T18:06:56Z")

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> [@Drew Blade](#):
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> **ntucker** , did you ever find anything?
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> Not that I expect you to be looking the rest of your life, or anything 🙂 .

I had started it over at 1000000, expecting to leave it for a **looong** time, and for some reason it just stopped on Sept 21. My shell automatically logged out, so I can’t tell what number it was at, unfortunately. I started it over and am logging the results to a file this time.

This really is a futile exercise. It could very well be that all the numbers found so far will be gone by the time my script goes that high.

(and to answer **elmwood’s** question, no, it is only searching for raw numbers with no punctuation)

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**Author:** ![Drew\_Blade](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/958977/32.png) [@Drew\_Blade](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drew_Blade)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2004, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-to-identify-the-lowest-number-not-found-on-google/264699/28 "2004-10-01T19:29:41Z")

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**ntucker** , your email address isn’t listed. Could you email me some time? I have a few questions I’d rather not throw out on the board.

Thanks.

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