Notes on the OEIS, Feb 14 2006

[Joerg Arndt]

* Ed Pegg Jr <edp at wolfram.com> [Feb 20. 2006 16:42]:
> You could use Mathematica:
> http://www.maa.org/editorial/mathgames/mathgames_12_08_03.html

Ouch!  Let's stay away from Mathematica as it takes orders of
magnitude more mem and cpu than some lean C/C++ library.

Moreover, the EULAs of WRI are fascistic to say the least.
E.g.: you can buy a program that reproduces the figures
from "New kinda science" but you are not allowed to use
the generated images for, say, your own book.

Basically the EULA (of Mathematica, as I have seen) state
that if you ever touched any WRI product than all your brain's
future output is property of WRI.


> 
> Eric has many of these in MathWorld now.  For example,
> http://mathworld.wolfram.com/SquareNumber.html

Nice page.  However, all images there can be created
with about any potting/imaging library/utility out there.


> 
> It's a handy way to visually take in hundreds of large numbers all at once.

Do you refer to batch processing here? 


> 
> Ed Pegg Jr
> [...]

all the best,
     jj

P.S.: see http:/www.jjj.de/grfxt/ if you dare

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