offsets ofter wrong

[Creighton Dement]

Dear Niel,

Sorry to have caused trouble with the offsets.  
I have no excuse for not having read the help file line about offsets
(moreover, English is my mother-tongue.). I (naively) assumed it was
o.k. to submit a sequence exactly as the text boxes are filled in in the
example from the submissions page.  

That said, I think the following sentence from the submissions page:
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/Submit.html

What IS the value of the "index" or "subscript" of the initial term?
(For example, if the sequence counts graphs on n nodes with some
property, what is the first value of n?)
box{0}

Should be replaced with something like:
Please enter the values of the "index" or "subscript" of the initial
term as well as the position of the first entry whose absolute value is
greater than or equal to 2 (or 1 if no such entry exists)? Write this as
a, b (do not use parenthesis).

Also note that it seems the word "Offset" given next to the 3rd bullet
under the headline "Formula"
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eishelp2.html
is a broken link.

Sincerely,
Creighton

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> Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:19:46 +0200
> Subject: offsets ofter wrong
> From: "N. J. A. Sloane" <njas at research.att.com>
> To: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr, crowdog at crowdog.de

>
> Dear Creighton (and other sequence fans):
> The second offset number tells you
> where the first term is that is bigger
> than 1 in magnitude (starting counting at 1)
>
> example:
>
> %I A111640
> %S A111640
>
1,9,45,195,793,3117,12013,45751,172961,650849,2441917,9144539,34203161,
> %T A111640
> 127829669,477505565,1783134255,6657304833,24851573497,92762239373, %U
> A111640
> 346229372851,1292232479961,4822886991709,17999765604237,67177262104679
>
>
> the offset is 2  because 9 is the second term, OK?
>
> %K A111640 easy,sign,new
> %O A111640 0,3
> %A A111640 Creighton Dement (crowdog(AT)crowdog.de), Aug 10 2005
> THAT SHOULD therefore be
>
> %O A111640 0,2
> ^
>
>
> if you could remember this it would save me a lot of work....
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Neil