OEIS idea (or 2)

Leroy Quet qq-quet at mindspring.com
Tue Aug 3 21:46:01 CEST 2004


>I wonder if it might be a nice idea to allow comments be sent to multiple 
>sequences, such as                                   to the sequence of 
>numerators and sequence of denominators of specific rationals, 
>simultaneously.

First, sorry about the big gap between words above.
I thought I checked for this kind of formatting problem.
Oh, well.



>
>Or maybe the last comment sent by someone can be preserved, perhaps made 
>the default submission-form info instead of the example-info which is 
>part of the submission-form now.
>In this way, there would be no need to retype or copy/paste if submitting 
>the same comment to multiple sequences.
>(Perhaps, with this idea implimented, there should be a check of some 
>sort to make sure the comment sent is what was really intended.)
>
>

Maybe a good idea would be to have as part of the submission-form, next 
to the "clear form" link at the top, a "restore last sent 
comment/sequence" link.

thanks,
Leroy Quet

>
>Also, a potential problem for some (which has never been a problem for me 
>personally):
>
>the fact that the "restore example" button on the main page is more 
>prominent than the "submit" button.
>I wonder how many new users of the OEIS have typed in some integers 
>(possibly spending some time doing so), only to accidently hit the 
>"restore example" button...
>
>thanks,
>Leroy Quet






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