seq: Sum of base 26 values of the English name of n

[Jonathan Post]

I did originally think that z (base 26) was 26, but then got the 0 value from:

http://www.mathsisfun.com/numbers/convert-base.php?to=letters

So what is right?

That is another reason that some puzzles and cryptosystems and word
sequences use base 32, with alphabet:
{0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,A,B,C,D,E,F,G,H,I,J,K,L,M,N,O,P,Q,R,S,T,U,V,W,X,Y,Z}

On 6/29/08, Maximilian Hasler <maximilian.hasler at gmail.com> wrote:
> I suppose you use base 26 because there are 26 letters.
>  But from that pov I find it quite unnatural to give the value 0 to 'z'
>  and not to 'a'.
>  If the alphabet 'a..z' is to be coded with numbers 0..25, 'a' should
>  get the 0 and not the 1.
>
>  Also, your use of 'base 26' for 'z' seems rather to mean "modulo 26"
>  so the result should also be taken mod 26.
>  Then the "a=1" and "a=0" versions just differ by the number of letters
>  in the word (mod 26)
>
>  Maximilian
>
>  On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 17:32, Jonathan Post <jvospost3 at gmail.com> wrote:
>  (...)
>
> > n   a(n) comment
>  > 0   38    z(base 26)+e(base 26)+r(base 26)+o(base 26) = 0+5+18+15 = 38
>
> (...)
>