OEIS on vacation in December

zak seidov zakseidov at yahoo.com
Tue Dec 5 19:50:53 CET 2006


Dear you,

Are these two "beautiful" only because 
they are not "prime"?

And they appeared
while OEIS being on vacation...
WARD, Zak

%I A124167
%S A124167
90,990,9990,99990,999990,9999990,99999990,999999990,9999999990,
%T A124167
99999999990,999999999990,9999999999990,99999999999990,999999999999990,
%U A124167
9999999999999990,99999999999999990,999999999999999990
%N A124167 Numbers of the form 9^i 0^1.
%p A124167 a:=n->sum (10^(n-j+2)-10^(n-j+1),j=0..n):
seq(a(n),n=0..28);
%K A124167 easy,nonn,new
%O A124167 0,1
%A A124167 Zerinvary Lajos
(zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 02 2006

%I A124166
%S A124166
100,1100,11100,111100,1111100,11111100,111111100,1111111100,
%T A124166
11111111100,111111111100,1111111111100,11111111111100,111111111111100,
%U A124166
1111111111111100,11111111111111100,111111111111111100
%N A124166 Numbers of the form 1^i 0^2.
%p A124166 a:=n->sum (10^(n-j+2),j=0..n):
seq(a(n),n=0..28);#
%K A124166 easy,nonn,new
%O A124166 1,1
%A A124166 Zerinvary Lajos
(zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Dec 02 2006

--- franktaw at netscape.net wrote:

> For whatever reasons, Neil is very reluctant to
> reject sequences.  I'm
> not going to presume to speak for him on the reasons
> for this.
> However, in my opinion, this does mean that those of
> us submitting
> sequences should be restrained in submitting
> sequences.  (Really,
> that restraint would be called for, anyhow.)
> 
> Just as an example, there are hundreds of sequences
> in the OEIS
> for primes with a particular digit pattern - some
> with the primes
> and some with their indices.
> 
> Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> 
> P.S. "prime author:seidov" finds 1085 matches.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: zakseidov at yahoo.com
> 
>   Rob, seqfans!
> 
> Most of these 1174  "prime seidov"'s
> are not of mine, I beleive.
> 
> And even all 25594 "prime" sequences
> in OEIS have been submitted by me - what then?
> 
> Why have Neil and co-editors ACCEPTED them?
> 
> (I repeated some 1,000 times that
> one should discriminate between RECEIVED and
> ACCEPTED submissions).
> 
> It is a general policy (and undisputed right)
> of any editor board to select/reject/accept
> submissions.
> 
> WARD (=with all due respect),
> Zak
> 
> PS You may call me "prime" offender,
> but my salary (which is zero) doesn't depend
> on the number of "my sequences" appeared in OEIS,
> and I don't mind if you'll remove all
> (OK, most of) my submisions from OEIS.
> 
> WARD,
> Zak
> 
> 
> --- Rob Pratt <Rob.Pratt at sas.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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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