A277685 Position of first letter of n (in Portuguese) in alphabet.

26, 21, 4, 20, 17, 3, 19, 19, 15, 14, 4, 15, 4, 20, 17, 17, 4, 4, 4, 4, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 22, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 20, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 17, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19, 19

Offset: 0

Author

João M. de Medeiros, Oct 26 2016

Keywords

• word
• nonn

Comments

Fourteen has two spellings in Portuguese: "quatorze" and "catorze". I chose the first one because it's the most used.

Examples

			"Um" -- Portuguese for one -- begins with U, which is the 21st letter in the alphabet, so a(1)=21.
		

Links

• João M. de Medeiros, Table of n, a(n) for n = 0..999

Crossrefs

Cf. A005606, A161377.

Programs

Python

from num2words import num2words
import unidecode
def A277685(n): # output differs from sequence at n=14 due to multiple spellings.
    return ord(unidecode.unidecode(num2words(n, lang='pt')).lower()[0]) - 96 # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 27 2020