OEIS on vacation in December

[zak seidov]

--- Rob Pratt <Rob.Pratt at sas.com> wrote:

> Because overzealous contributors have swamped the
> database with sequences that have a contrived
> relationship to prime numbers.
> 
> Rob Pratt

OK!

But dear Rob, dear Neil, dear co-editors, 
and dear seqfans!!

Why not simply to reject such "probably not"
submissions???!!!

I "have swamped the list with this Q" 
and have never got a reasonable explanation....

WADR (=with all duty respect),
Zak


> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Baruchel [mailto:tbaruchel at free.fr] 
> Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 9:19 AM
> To: seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
> Subject: Re: OEIS on vacation in December
> 
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
> > - don't send in sequences that you made up (unless
> >   they are really beautiful - and if they
> >   are base dependent or involve primes
> >   they are probably not)
> 
> Just a question ; I do understand very well why base
> dependent sequences aren't really beautiful, but I
> sincerely wonder why sequences which involve prime
> numbers "are probably not". Why? Aren't they the
> most beautiful ones?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Thomas Baruchel
> 
> 



 
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