A177232 - OEIS

A177232

Number of letters in the Greek name of n, excluding spaces.

5, 3, 3, 4, 7, 5, 3, 4, 4, 5, 4, 6, 6, 8, 11, 9, 7, 8, 8, 9, 6, 9, 9, 10, 13, 11, 9, 10, 10, 11, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 7, 10, 10, 11, 14, 12, 10, 11, 11, 12, 6, 9, 9, 10, 13, 11, 9, 10, 10, 11, 9, 12, 12, 13, 16, 14, 12, 13, 13, 14, 7

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OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

Greek has its own alphabet, which for our convenience here we will transliterate as a, b, g, d, e, z, i, th, i, k, l, m, n, x, o, p, r, s, t, i, f, ch, ps, o.

Watts (2004) gives alternate spellings for 7, 8, 9 (and 17, 18, 19) which presumably carry over to all numbers having those digits. The accent is placed differently in the word for 9: enniá instead of ennéa, but the number of letters remains the same. - Alonso del Arte, Feb 24 2013

REFERENCES

David Holton, Peter Mackridge, Irene Philippaki-Warburton, Greek: An Essential Grammar of the Modern Language. London: Routledge (2004): 105-107.

Niki Watts, Colloquial Greek: The Complete Course for Beginners. London: Routledge (2004): 35-36.

LINKS

Table of n, a(n) for n=0..80.

Index entries for sequences related to number of letters in n

EXAMPLE

1 to 21: Ena, dio, tria, tessera, pente, exi, epta, okto, ennea, deka, endeka, dideka, dekatria, dekatessera, dekapente, dekaexi, dekaepta, dekaokto, dekaennea, eikosi, eikosi ena.

30: Trianta

40: Saranta

50: Peninta

60: Exinta

70: Ebdominta

80: Ogdonta

90: Eneninta

100: Ekaton or ekato

200: Diakosioi

CROSSREFS

Sequence in context: A208123 A090489 A090484 * A200099 A182129 A010038

Adjacent sequences: A177229 A177230 A177231 * A177233 A177234 A177235

KEYWORD

nonn,word

AUTHOR

Antoine Lafranchis (antlafranchis(AT)gmail.com), May 05 2010

STATUS

approved