A050444 Primes setting records for earliest alphabetical position in American English.

2, 3, 5, 11, 83, 89, 809, 811, 881, 18013, 18041, 18049, 18059, 18089, 18803, 18839, 18859, 18000041, 18000089, 18000803, 18000811, 18000883, 18000887, 18000889, 18018017, 18018043, 18018047, 18018053, 18018059, 18018839, 18018841, 18018883, 8000000011, 8000000081, 8000000809, 8000000851, 8000018009, 8000018051, 8000018087, 8000018809, 8000018881, 8018000021, 8018000059, 8018000087, 8018000839, 8018000867, 8018018009, 8018018051, 8018018081, 8018018089, 8018018819, 8018018849, 8018018851

Offset

0,1

Comments

Each member of the sequence falls alphabetically earlier than the one before and they are all prime. Billions are American (10^9).

Spaces and dashes and the word "and" are not included in the comparisons.

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..52.

Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Knuth's Number

Crossrefs

Cf. A050445.

Sequence in context: A242334 A087524 A088053 * A117701 A056163 A118573

Adjacent sequences: A050441 A050442 A050443 * A050445 A050446 A050447

Keyword

base,fini,full,nonn,word

Author

Michael Lugo (mlugo(AT)thelabelguy.com), Dec 23 1999

Extensions

Edited and corrected by David W. Wilson, Feb 27 2003

Status

approved