A331498 Position of the first letter of n (in French) in the alphabet.

26, 21, 4, 20, 17, 3, 19, 19, 8, 14, 4, 15, 4, 20, 17, 17, 19, 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, 19, 19, 19, 19

Offset: 0

Author

J. Marcel Feenstra, Jan 18 2020

Keywords

• nonn
• word

Examples

			'Un' (French for 'one') begins with 'U', the twenty-first letter of the alphabet, hence a(1)=21.
		

Links

• Le conjugueur, Most used numbers (from Le Figaro)

Crossrefs

Cf. A005606.

Programs

Mathematica

a[n_] := LetterNumber @ Characters[IntegerName[n, "French"]][[1]]; Array[a, 100, 0]  (* Amiram Eldar, Jan 18 2020 *)

Python

from num2words import num2words
import unidecode
def A331498(n):
    return ord(unidecode.unidecode(num2words(n, lang='fr')).lower()[0]) - 96 # Chai Wah Wu, Feb 27 2020