OEIS's Adjacent sequences?

T. D. Noe noe at sspectra.com
Mon May 23 18:17:05 CEST 2005


At 12:07 PM -0400 5/23/05, Jud McCranie wrote:
>At 11:52 AM 5/23/2005, Robert G. Wilson v wrote:
>>OK, But how are you going to know before you look whether it is related or
>>not. From the OEIS point of view, this would require extra ordinary among
>>of programming and it would still not work as desired, for it would
>>exclude sequences you really did wish to see.
>
>You can't know for sure by checking the author of the sequence, but it
>would help tremendously.  It would be a lot better than the way it
>is.  Sure, there will be cases where an author gets 10 numbers in sequence
>and uses them for two or more purposes, but at least you eliminate the ones
>by other authors which are almost certainly unrelated.
>
>>would require extra ordinary among of programming
>
>Probably one line.  If I had written the program that does it, and in a
>language of my choice, it would take one more line to check the author line
>of the adjacent sequence and decide whether or not to list it.

I like the feature as it is.  Suppose someone wants to read all the
sequences from A000001 to A001000.  It can be done with a 1000 clicks
instead of typing 1000 numbers.

Tony





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