This is a front-end for the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, made by Christian Perfect. The idea is to provide OEIS entries in non-ancient HTML, and then to think about how they're presented visually. The source code is on GitHub.
%I A191299 #9 Jul 22 2025 12:08:23 %S A191299 20,200,200,69,1935,1939,1942,1944,10,300,200,1766,1812,1933,1931, %T A191299 1931,15,200,1944,1936,33,33 %N A191299 List of integers in Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow". %C A191299 Integers, in order (up to and including p. 36) appearing in the 1973 novel "Gravity's Rainbow". %C A191299 Rules: In order to avoid confusion with rational numbers, numbers in strings less representative of entire isolated integers (e.g. "6:43:16 BDST", p. 29), single-quotation-mark-truncated integers (e.g. " '37 ", p. 20, as opposed to "1937"), etc., we begin by establishing the following rules: %C A191299 (i) The integers cannot be connected to non-space-characters except if: the integer is immediately followed by a period then a space, or a comma then a space, or a question mark then a space, or an exclamation point then a space, or a colon then a space, or a semicolon then a space, or a closing bracket, or a double quotation mark (but not a single quotation mark, e.g. "86'd" p. 22); or except if an opening bracket immediately precedes the integer, or if a double quotation mark (but not a single quotation mark, given the truncation concern indicated above) immediately precedes the integer; integers may be concatenated using "-". %C A191299 (ii) Integers containing a comma such as "50,000" (p. 85) are allowed. %C A191299 (iii) These numbers cannot be written using characters of the alphabet, e.g. "Zero" (p. 1), or "World War II" (p. 17). %C A191299 (iv) The page numbers and chapter numbers of the book are not included (although the corresponding page numbers are indicated below). %C A191299 (v) Integers appearing in equations are included. %C A191299 (End of Rules) %C A191299 See examples below for integers which are and are not(/would not be) included by the above rules. %C A191299 The corresponding page numbers (in the below edition) are: 3, 7, 7, 9, 14, 17, 18, 21, 21, 25, 27, 27, 27, 28, 29, 29, 31, 34, 34, 36, 36, 36. %D A191299 Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow". 1973. Penguin Books, New York, 2006. %H A191299 Wikipedia, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity's_Rainbow">Gravity's Rainbow</a> %e A191299 "...drunks, old veterans still in shock from ordnance 20 years obsolete..." (p. 3) %e A191299 "Well, the range of these things is supposed to be over 200 miles. You can't see a vapor trail 200 miles, now, can you." (p. 7) %e A191299 "A lot of stuff prior to 1944 is getting blurry now." (p. 21) %e A191299 "...hmm, the frock she imagines is about 15 guineas and who knows how many coupons..." (p. 31) %e A191299 Integers in the following strings/words are not/would not be included: "A4" (p. 8), "V-2" (p. 8), "4/4" (p. 9), "2" immediately followed by the single "1/2" symbol (p. 16), "8:20" (p. 17), " '37 " (p. 20), "86'd" (p. 22), "6:43:16 British Double Summer Time" (p. 27), "3-sigma" (p. 41), "0.37" (p. 57), "10%" (p. 62), "140th" (p. 65), " '39 " (p. 65), "104^o" (where "o" is the degree symbol) (p. 133), etc. %Y A191299 Cf. A055627, A145833, A014254, A142719. Other sequences involving a work of fiction. %K A191299 word,nonn,fini,full %O A191299 1,1 %A A191299 _John M. Campbell_, May 30 2011