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A331481
Position of the first letter of n-th (in English) in the alphabet.
1
26, 6, 19, 20, 6, 6, 19, 19, 5, 14, 20, 5, 20, 20, 6, 6, 19, 19, 5, 14, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19
OFFSET
0,1
EXAMPLE
'First' begins with 'F', the sixth letter, hence a(1)=6.
MATHEMATICA
a[n_] := LetterNumber @ Characters[IntegerName[n, {"English", "Ordinal"}]][[1]]; Array[a, 100, 0] (* Amiram Eldar, Jan 18 2020 *)
PROG
(Python)
from num2words import num2words
import unidecode
def A331481(n):
return ord(unidecode.unidecode(num2words(n, to='ordinal')).lower()[0]) - 96 # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 27 2020
CROSSREFS
Cf. A005606 (analog for cardinal numbers).
Sequence in context: A040657 A309073 A277215 * A040656 A070661 A040655
KEYWORD
nonn,word
AUTHOR
J. Marcel Feenstra, Jan 18 2020
STATUS
approved