Guinness Book of Records??

Robert G. Wilson v rgwv at kspaint.com
Thu Aug 22 23:32:35 CEST 2002


Neil,

        Before I call England on my dime, I think that this one needs to 
be resolved!

Sequentially yours,
Bob.

Antti Karttunen wrote:

>
>"N. J. A. Sloane" wrote:
>
>>Dear Seqfans,
>>Amarnath Murthy suggested the the On-Line Encyclopedia
>>of Integer Sequences might be worthy of inclusion in
>>the Guinness Book of Records.  Would someone be
>>willing to volunteer to suggest it to them?
>>
>
>On what subject OEIS would be a record holder?
>We can find several, but a field were there are
>at least some competition, but nothing serious
>for a long time, might be good?
>
>I mean, "The database with the largest number of integer sequences"
>is almost a tautology...
>
>The database with most ???
>(not the number of "entries", surely, but, say, the amount
>of new material arriving per day, from volunteers?)
>Or ???
>
>
>Would "The database with largest number of mathematical formulae"
>win?
>
Math World would probably have this one.

>
>
>>I looked at their website,
>>http://www.guinnessrecords.com/
>>which is a fine example of what you can do with Javascript, by the way
>>
>
>Sorry, but I think the site uses a Macromedia plug-in to achieve
>the effects, and Javascript-part seems to contain only
>the definitions:
>
>var baseURL = "http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/"
>var formsbaseurl = "/enquiries/"
>var trumpsbaseurl = "http://trumps.guinnessworldrecords.com/"
>
>(Just my warning: JavaScript is a major pain in the a** to get
>it to work with different browsers, if you consider any "upgrade"
>of OEIS towards that direction. Or at least it was in 1998 when I had to
>last touch it.)
>
>>NJAS
>>
>
>
>-- Antti
>

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