base keyword usage

[Franklin T. Adams-Watters]

In practice, "base" seems to be used for many sequences whose definition involves writing things in bases; for example, A016038 (strictly non-palindromic numbers).  I would prefer that the keyword not be attached to sequences of this type.  It should, in my opinion, mean "this is a sequence about how numbers are written, not about mathematics".

Incidently, the definition as written would include all sequences with the "cons" keyword.

"David Wilson" <davidwwilson at comcast.net> wrote:
>As with all things OEIS, the "cofr" keyword is not as cut-and-dried as we 
>would like it to be.
>
>------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>A similar situation occurs with the "base" keyword.
>
>base: Sequence is dependent on base used
>
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Franklin T. Adams-Watters
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