A139132 The following sequence of French words has the property that it tells which letters in the sequence are vowels: un, quatre, cinq, huit, dix, quatorze, quinze, dix-huit, vingt et un, vingt-deux, ... Now replace the words with their numerical values.

1, 4, 5, 8, 10, 14, 15, 18, 21, 22, 24, 27, 29, 30, 33, 35, 38, 39, 42, 46, 48, 51, 56, 57, 60, 65, 66, 69, 71, 76, 80, 85, 86, 90, 93, 96, 99, 102, 103, 107, 110, 112, 117, 120, 122, 123, 127, 130, 132, 133, 136, 137, 139, 142, 144, 145, 148

Offset: 1

Author

N. J. A. Sloane (based on Angelini's article), Jun 08 2008

Keywords

• nonn
• word
• easy

Comments

If there is a choice, pick the smallest number (or word) that makes sense. Hyphens, accents and spaces are ignored.

Examples

			The first vowel is the "u" in "un", in position 1 (un), the second vowel is the "u" in "quatre", the fourth letter in the sentence (i.e. in position 4, quatre) and so on.
		

References

• E. Angelini, "Jeux de suites", in Dossier Pour La Science, pp. 32-35, Volume 59 (Jeux math'), April/June 2008, Paris.

Crossrefs

For an English version see A019270.

Extensions

More terms from Sean A. Irvine, Aug 27 2012