OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
This sequence uses "and" (e.g., "one hundred and one") and does not count spaces, commas, or hyphens. - Michael S. Branicky, Mar 08 2021
LINKS
Sean A. Irvine, Java program (github)
EXAMPLE
From the sequence of the valid primes (A072686) there are three prime-length primes between 1 and 10: 2,3,7; therefore a(1)=3. 23 ("twentythree", 11 letters) and 109 ("one hundred and nine", 17 letters) are counted.
PROG
(Python)
from num2words import num2words
from sympy import isprime, primerange
def n2w(n):
return num2words(n).replace(chr(44), "").replace(" ", "").replace("-", "")
def a(n): return sum(isprime(len(n2w(p))) for p in primerange(2, 10**n))
print([a(n) for n in range(1, 7)]) # Michael S. Branicky, Mar 08 2021
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,word,more
AUTHOR
Mark Hudson (mrmarkhudson(AT)hotmail.com), Jul 02 2002
EXTENSIONS
a(6)-a(8) from Sean A. Irvine, Nov 08 2011
a(8) corrected by Sean A. Irvine, Apr 28 2019
a(8) corrected and a(9) from Michael S. Branicky, Mar 08 2021
a(10) from Michael S. Branicky, Dec 24 2025
a(11) from Michael S. Branicky, Jan 02 2026
STATUS
approved
