OEIS on vacation in December

[Rob Pratt]

Zak,

You are one of the "prime" offenders.  A search on "prime seidov" returns 1174 sequences.

Rob 

-----Original Message-----
From: zak seidov [mailto:zakseidov at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2006 11:11 AM
To: Rob Pratt; seqfan at ext.jussieu.fr
Subject: RE: OEIS on vacation in December

 
--- 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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