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A196278 Number of letters in the French ordinal numbers.

%I A196278 #28 Aug 09 2021 02:41:57
%S A196278 7,8,9,9,9,7,8,8,8,7,7,8,9,11,9,8,11,11,11,9,13,13,14,14,14,12,13,13,
%T A196278 13,9,14,14,15,15,15,13,14,14,14,11,16,16,17,17,17,15,16,16,16,12,17,
%U A196278 17,18,18,18,16,17,17,17,11,16,16,17,17,17,15,16,16,16,15,17,16,17,19,17,16,19,19,19,15,17,19,20,20,20,18,19,19,19,18,18,19,20,22,20,19,22,22,22,8
%N A196278 Number of letters in the French ordinal numbers.
%C A196278 The first term corresponds to the masculine form "premier"; it could as well have been chosen to be "première". In contrast to A006969, hyphens and spaces are not counted. First differs at n = 17, where the hyphen in "dix-septième" is not counted here, but there.
%C A196278 It would be nice to have short programs in various languages to spell out the n-th ordinal number in French.
%H A196278 Team of "ParisByPod", <a href="http://www.parisbypod.com/2007/10/23/french-ordinal-numbers">French ordinal numbers, 1 to 100</a>, as of Sept. 2011.
%H A196278 Wiktionnaire, <a href="http://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Catégorie:Ordinaux_en_français">Ordinaux en français</a>, <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/Annexe:Nombres_en_fran%C3%A7ais#Accord_orthographique_en_nombre">Accord orthographique en nombre</a>, <a href="https://fr.wiktionary.org/wiki/quatre-vingti%C3%A8me#Fran%C3%A7ais">quatre-vingtième</a>.
%H A196278 Yale University Library, <a href="http://www.library.yale.edu/cataloging/music/foreign.htm">The names of numbers in French, German, Italian, and Spanish</a>.
%e A196278 a(1) = #"premier" = 7, a(2) = #"deuxième" = 8, a(3) = #"troisième" = 9,
%e A196278 a(4) = #"quatrième" = 9, a(5) = #"cinquième" = 9, a(6) = #"sixième" = 7, etc.
%e A196278 a(80) = 15, the number of letters in "quatre-vingtième". - _M. F. Hasler_, Aug 08 2021
%Y A196278 Cf. A006969, A080519, A167507.
%Y A196278 Cf. A006944 (in American English).
%K A196278 nonn,word
%O A196278 1,1
%A A196278 _M. F. Hasler_, Sep 30 2011