Alcuin's Sequence

[Robert G. Wilson v]

Et al,

	I found that reference when I was helping Dr. Sloane assemble his book 'The 
Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences' and it was I who coined the name. Notice in the 
book that there is a reference to Olivastro.

Sequentially yours,

Robert G. 'Bob' Wilson, V

Rainer Rosenthal wrote:

> Dear SeqFan,
> 
> some days ago I forwarded a request from Hermann Kremer, regarding
> sequence A005044. In the meantime he received help and did a lot
> of research. Here is a compilation of his findings:
> Message ID: 018701c4525a$54f89cd0$12aca8c0 at her_nt
> 
> Here is the central statement of his posting above:
> 
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> In 1993, Dominic Olivastro published the book
> 
>   D. Olivastro: Ancient Puzzles. Classic Brainteasers and 
>   Other Timeless Mathematical Games of the Last 10 Centuries.
>   New York: Bantam Books, 1993
> 
> and in the chapter on fair sharing problems he introduced the 
> sequence of the number of solutions for different values of  N,  
> which he called A_q, "... in honour of Alcuin ...".
> 
> Following Olivastro's hommage to Alcuin, Neil Sloane seems to 
> have coined the name "Alcuin's sequence" for the OEIS, and from 
> there it found its way into Eric Weissteins "Mathworld".
> 
> Thanks to Jutta Gut and Francisco Salinas for their help.
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> The posting contains a lot of references.
> 
> Best regards
> Rainer Rosenthal
> r.rosenthal at web.de
>