A001579, A001550, etc./Correction

Marc LeBrun mlb at well.com
Fri Aug 23 01:13:57 CEST 2002


>Henry, I can't speak specifically about A001579, but it seems to me that 
>the general idea is for the EIS to be as inclusive as possible.

>Neil has always had a "big tent" policy, and I've slowly come to 
>appreciate the wisdom of it.  First, unless a sequence is in the database 
>it can't be found, either by users or programs like superseeker.  Second, 
>it's hard enough just to get sequences into the database in the first 
>place, without having to worry unduly about whether they're "interesting 
>enough".  Third, reasonable people will differ about what's interesting 
>anyway.  For example I don't much care for sequences that depend on 
>decimal representation--but if you do, knock yourself out (and then at 
>least the sequence for the base=10 case will be there!<;-).

>Thus all it may mean is that somebody found 3^n + 5^n + 6^n interesting 
>enough to include...so there it is (kind of like the so-called anthropic 
>principle, as applied to sequences).

If you find a different set of {a,b,c} make interesting a^n + b^n + c^n, 
then by all means please include them too!





















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