A096582 From the "100 Green Bottles" song.

100, 99, 98, 97, 96, 95, 94, 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, 88, 87, 86, 85, 84, 83, 82, 81, 80, 79, 78, 77, 76, 75, 74, 73, 72, 71, 70, 69, 68, 67, 66, 65, 64, 63, 62, 61, 60, 59, 58, 57, 56, 55, 54, 53, 52, 51, 50, 49, 48, 47, 46, 45, 44, 43, 42, 41, 40, 39, 38, 37, 36, 35, 34, 33, 32, 31, 30, 29, 28, 27, 26, 25, 24, 23, 22, 21, 20, 19, 18, 17, 16, 15, 14, 13, 12, 11, 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 0

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane, following a suggestion of Ed Pegg Jr, Aug 15 2004

Keywords

• nonn
• fini
• full

Comments

Included as an accompaniment to the OEIS 100K e-party (see link).

There are many versions of the song. One begins:

One hundred green bottles standing on the wall,

One hundred green bottles standing on the wall,

and if one green bottle should accidentally fall,

there'd be ninety-nine green bottles standing on the wall.

Ninety-nine green bottles standing on the wall,

Ninety-nine green bottles standing on the wall,

and if one green bottle should accidentally fall,

there'd be Ninety-eight green bottles standing on the wall.

...

The most common version begins "Ten green bottles standing on the wall", but that gives a subsequence.

Links

• Early Development Association, Ten Green Bottles [wayback copy]
• Øyvind Jørgensen, Ninety-Nine Green Bottles [wayback copy]
• Tanya Khovanova, Non Recursions
• N. J. A. Sloane, The OEIS 100K E-Party
• Index entries for sequences related to songs

Crossrefs

Cf. A038674, A060858, A064373, A085735, A091978.