what is most special about a given integer?

[Olivier Gerard]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 05:22:45PM -0400, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> Erich,
> there's a book in French on that very subject:
> 
> i quote from A014556:
> 
> %D A014556 Le Lionnais, F. Les Nombres Remarquables. Paris: Hermann, pp. 88 and 144, 1983.
> 
> 
> NJAS
>

And David Wells Dictionnary 1st Edition shamlessly "borrowed"
a lot of its material.

Francois Le Lionnais was also a writer, an oulipian and pataphysician and a
chess columnist, interested in Chess beauty prizes.
The book was finally completed by Jean Brette, who at that time was Head of Math Dpt
of "Palais de La Decouverte", a kind of Science Museum in Paris.

Olivier



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