report on recent OEIS activity

Brendan McKay bdm at cs.anu.edu.au
Thu Feb 26 00:09:00 CET 2004


* N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> [040226 01:59]:
> 
> I am merging the obvious duplicates, and I am recycling
> the A-numbers.  So if you submitted sequences recently, even
> pre-numbered ones, they may end up with small A-numbers.

I'm seeing an increasing number of published papers with explicit
mention of A-numbers.  These authors clearly believe that A-numbers are
a permanent label for a sequence.  I'm not sure this is enough reason
to stop recycling A-numbers, but I thought I'd mention it.

Brendan.





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