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

Author

Michael Joseph Halm, Jul 28 2002

Keywords

• easy
• nonn
• word

Comments

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

Examples

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

References

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

Links

• M. J. Halm, neologisms

Crossrefs

Cf. A005224, A072887.

Formula

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