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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.". +0
5
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 (list; graph; listen)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENT

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

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: A073294 A073295 A004728 this_sequence A031980 A036741 A037479

Adjacent sequences: A072883 A072884 A072885 this_sequence A072887 A072888 A072889

KEYWORD

easy,nonn,word

AUTHOR

Michael Joseph Halm (hierogamous(AT)lycos.com), Jul 28 2002

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