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A006969
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Number of characters in French ordinal numbers.
(Formerly M4334)
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3
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7, 8, 9, 9, 9, 7, 8, 8, 8, 7, 7, 8, 9, 11, 9, 8, 12, 12, 12, 9, 15, 14, 15, 15, 15, 13, 14, 14, 14, 9, 16, 15, 16, 16, 16, 14, 15, 15, 15, 11, 18, 17, 18, 18, 18, 16, 17, 17, 17, 12, 19, 18
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OFFSET
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1,1
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COMMENTS
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Nombres de caractères (lettres, espaces et tirets) des nombres ordinaux en français.
In contrast to A196278, hyphens and spaces are counted here. First differs at n = 17 (dix-septième). - Georg Fischer, Aug 07 2021
In French the final -s in "quatre-vingts", "deux cents", ... disappears when the ordinal suffix "-ième" is appended. (This is currently incorrectly handled in the Python module num2words.) Also, the trailing "-e" of numbers ending in "quatre", "onze" - "seize", "trente" - "soixante" disappears. Therefore, in all these cases the name of the ordinal has only 3 letters more than the name of the cardinal, viz. a(n) = A007005(n)+3. For numbers ending in "cinq", there appears an additional "u", whence a(n) = A007005(n)+5 in this case. - M. F. Hasler, Aug 08 2021
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REFERENCES
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N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
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LINKS
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FORMULA
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a(n) = A007005(n) + e, where e = 4 except for n = 1 and when the French name of n ends in "cinq" (then e = 5), or when it ends in "-e" or "-ts" (then e = 3). - M. F. Hasler, Aug 08 2021
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EXAMPLE
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a(21) = # "vingt-et-unième" = 15, where # means length of the string.
a(50) = # "cinquantième" = 12.
a(80) = # "quatre-vingtième": the '-s' disappears from "quatre-vingts".
a(200) = # "deux-centième": the '-s' disappears from "deux cents".
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PROG
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(PARI) apply( {A006969(n, t=French(n))=#t+if(n==1||"nq"==t=Strchr(Vecsmall(t)[-2..-1]), 5, "ts"==t || Vec(t)[2]=="e", 3, 4)}, [1..55]) \\ See A007005 for French(). - M. F. Hasler, Aug 08 2021
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CROSSREFS
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Cf. A006944 (in American English), A196278 (similar, but not counting spaces and hyphens).
Cf. A007005, A167507 (number of letters/characters in French name of n).
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KEYWORD
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nonn,word
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STATUS
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