A111098 Smallest nonnegative integer containing the n-th letter of the alphabet (in US English), or -1 if no such integer exists.

1000, 1000000000, 1000000000000000000000000000, 100, 0, 4, 8, 3, 5, -1, -1, 11, 1000000, 1, 0, 1000000000000000000000000, 1000000000000000, 0, 6, 2, 4, 5, 2, 6, 20, 0

Offset: 1

Author

Greg Huber, Oct 13 2005

Keywords

• fini
• sign
• full
• word

Comments

This is assuming the use of the short scale for large numbers.

In British English, the first term is 101 (from "and").

Links

• Wikipedia, Échelles longue et courte

Crossrefs

Cf. A147876. Differs from A029722 because "zero" is permitted.

Extensions

Sequence completed by Daniel Mondot, Nov 21 2008