login

Year-end appeal: Please make a donation to the OEIS Foundation to support ongoing development and maintenance of the OEIS. We are now in our 61st year, we have over 378,000 sequences, and we’ve reached 11,000 citations (which often say “discovered thanks to the OEIS”).

A362442
a(1) = 6; thereafter a(n) = smallest number with a(n-1) letters in American English.
1
6, 11, 23, 323, 1103323373373373373373373373373
OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
a(5) should be findable, but a(6) will probably not be well defined.
See A362441 for a British English version.
REFERENCES
GCHQ, The GCHQ Puzzle Book, Penguin, 2016. See pages 92 and 275.
FORMULA
a(n) = A080777(a(n-1)) for n > 1. - Michael S. Branicky, Apr 22 2023
EXAMPLE
a(2) = 11 since "eleven" is the smallest number with 6 letters.
a(3) = 23 since "twenty three" is the smallest with 11 letters.
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,word,more
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Apr 22 2023
EXTENSIONS
a(5) from Michael S. Branicky, Apr 22 2023 using A080777
STATUS
approved