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The four-is sequence merely counts the letters in the words of the generating sentence.
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%I #12 Dec 04 2020 04:13:45

%S 4,2,3,6,2,7,2,3,5,4,2,4,8,3,2,3,6,5,2,3,5,3,2,3,6,3,2,3,5,5,2,3,5,3,

%T 2,3,7,5,2,3,6,4,2,3,5,4,2,3,5,3,2,3,8,4,2,3,7,5,2,3,10,5,2,3,10,3,2,

%U 3,9,5,2,3,9,3,2,3,11,4,2,3,10,3,2,3,10

%N The four-is sequence merely counts the letters in the words of the generating sentence.

%D M. J. Halm, Newies, Mpossibilities 64, p. 2 (Mar. 1997)

%H M. J. Halm, <a href="http://michaelhalm.tripod.com/andre_joyce_s_coined_words.htm">neologisms</a>

%F From the generating sentence: "Four is the number of letters in the first word of this sentence, two in the second, three in the third, six in the fourth, two in the fifth ..."

%e a(2) = 2 because the second word, 'is', has two letters.

%K easy,nonn,word

%O 1,1

%A _Michael Joseph Halm_, Jul 31 2002

%E Some terms corrected by _Neven Sajko_, Dec 03 2020