another puzzle

[Markus Voege]

Neil,

After searching googling and ploughing through some of the hits I come to
the following conclusion:

The clue seems to be in the author line: +orc

The riddle appear on many pages with claim that someone named +orc (Old
Red Cracker) has posed. It is supposed to be a link to a webpage (coded
as IP number).

The pages are dated 1997 and 1998.

The number of the given the sequence do not seem to be connected with the
riddle.

Hence I regard the entry a spoof to get the riddle into the OEIS.


Markus V"oge


References:
http://www.home.aone.net.au/byzantium/orc.html
http://www.woodmann.com/fravia/orc1.htm


On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:

> also waiting in the queue was this:
>
> %S A000001 2 29 590 7011 60324
> %N A000001 "Gold, with six bars, or with the visor raised (in full face) for royalty"
> "Silver, with five bars, (in full face) for a duke or marquis"
> "Silver, with four bars, with visor raised (in profile) for an earl, viscount or baron"
> "Steel, without bars, and with visor open (in full face) for a knight or a baronet"
> "Steel, with visor closed (in profile) for a squire or a gentleman"
>
> riddle me this
>
>
> My guess is that the numbers    2 29 590 7011 60324  are meaningless,
> and were just used as a tag to get the
> riddle into the OEIS
>
> If you do a google on "Gold, with six bars", you will find
> a bunch of links to the riddle, but no sequence.
>
> So I'm going to delete the sequence, unless some seq fan can come
> up with an explanation.
>
> The "author" line said:
>
> %A A000001 +orc (homegrownenergy at home.com), Jan 12 2004
>
> but that email address is a dud.
>
> Neil
>

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