square (prime+square)
Marc LeBrun
mlb at fxpt.com
Fri Mar 28 21:59:05 CET 2003
Just some tangential comments...
>=Ralf Stephan
> ... 0 if no such p seems to exist, 1 if it has been proven.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Encoding too much of our state-of-knowledge into a sequence seems like a
bad idea.
Not only humans, but also programs, such as superseeker, read the sequence
entries.
To enable transforms getting a "hit" only one magic value should be used to
mark special elements.
Overlaying historically contingent noise can mask a partially proven
sequence that happens nonetheless to be complete and correct, such as this one.
If needed, a comment like "a(n) values currently unconfirmed for n=..." can
be added to show our current understanding.
Fortunately, for this sequence, other replies have proved all specific
cases, so 0 could be used and the definition changed to
"... 0 if no such p exists"
or the like.
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