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The s-aints, numbers generated like the Aronson series from a generating sentence, "S ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth . . . letter of this sentence.".
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%I #5 Oct 03 2013 09:31:20

%S 2,3,4,5,6,7,8,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20,21,22,23,24,25,26,27,

%T 28,29,30,32,33,34,35,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44,45,46,47,48,49,50,51,52,

%U 53,54,55,56,57,58,59,60,61,62,63,64,65,66,67,68,69,70,71,72,73,74,75

%N The s-aints, numbers generated like the Aronson series from a generating sentence, "S ain't the second, third, fourth, fifth . . . letter of this sentence.".

%C The discovery of the s-ain'ts was inspired by the mention of the Aronson series in Douglas R. Hofstadter's Metamathematical Themas.

%D M. J. Halm, When the S-ain'ts ..., Mpossibilities 61, pp. 1-2 (1996)

%H M. J. Halm, <a href="http://michaelhalm.tripod.com/andre_joyce_s_coined_words.htm">neologisms</a>

%F In blocks of 10 letters: saintthese condthirdf ourthfifth sixthseven theighthte nthelevent htwelfthth irteenthfo urteenthfi fteenthsix teenthseve nteentheig hteenthnin ...

%e a(1)= 2 because the first letter in the generating sentence that ain't s is the second one, a.

%Y Cf. A005224, A072887.

%K easy,nonn,word

%O 1,1

%A _Michael Joseph Halm_, Jul 28 2002