A072886 The s-aints, numbers generated like the Aronson series from a generating sentence, "S ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth . . . letter of this sentence.".

2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 32, 33, 34, 35, 37, 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43, 44, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75

Offset

1,1

Comments

The discovery of the s-ain'ts was inspired by the mention of the Aronson series in Douglas R. Hofstadter's Metamathematical Themas.

References

M. J. Halm, When the S-ain'ts ..., Mpossibilities 61, pp. 1-2 (1996)

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=1..71.

M. J. Halm, neologisms

Formula

In blocks of 10 letters: saintthese condthirdf ourthfifth sixthseven theighthte nthelevent htwelfthth irteenthfo urteenthfi fteenthsix teenthseve nteentheig hteenthnin ...

Example

a(1)= 2 because the first letter in the generating sentence that ain't s is the second one, a.

Crossrefs

Cf. A005224, A072887.

Sequence in context: A358123 A004728 A376573 * A031980 A183221 A317492

Adjacent sequences: A072883 A072884 A072885 * A072887 A072888 A072889

Keyword

easy,nonn,word

Author

Michael Joseph Halm, Jul 28 2002

Status

approved