An old and popular puzzle, recently revived on Twitter by Alex Bellos, Chris Smith, and others, asks to take the first 26 primes, relate each to letters of the alphabet (A = 2, B = 3, C = 5, ..., Y = 97, Z = 101), and use this code to find the (legitimate) English word that comes closest to a million, where the word's numeric value is given by the product of its letters. CAB is thus valued 5x2x3=30.
With the same code, what is the longest English word valued at most a million?
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