request for advice

[Richard Guy]

Emeric puts his finger on the main dificulty:

(b) (3n^2 - n - 2)/2  might be the characteristic
function for a second order recurrence which
counts all sorts of interesting objects.

(c) numbers  n  such that  an + b  is prime,
especially for some small (coprime!) (a,b),
might be of interest in certain numbertheoretic
contexts.

and so on -- not easy to decide -- one man's
fish is another man's poisson.

I am just writing a paper which contains
about a dozen sequences.  Nearly half are
already in (and are referenced).  The others
would be fairly meaningless out of context,
but in context ...  I shall send the paper to
Sloane's Dream Team, and if it grabs anyone,
I expect that they will submit the sequences
for me.    Thanks in advance.    R.

On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, Emeric Deutsch wrote:

> Here are a few thoughts:
> 1. One has to be tough.
>
> 2. Let's not be personal (limiting to a certain person the number
> of contributions).
>
> 3. List examples of types of undesirable sequences:
> (a) numbers n such that n and 2n+1 belong to AXXXXXX;
> (b) (3n^2-n-2)/2;
> (c) numbers n such an+b is prime;
> etc. etc. etc. etc.
>
> 4. Contributors should avoid as much as possible definitions
> that include AXXXXXX. They should take the trouble to give a
> self-contained definition and should mention AXXXXXX only in
> the comments.
>
> 5. I think that prospective authors should ask themselves:
>
> can I envisage this sequence appearing in some book or journal?
>
> If the honest answer to this is a NO, then, with some exceptions,
> the sequence should not be submitted.
>
> Emeric
>
>
>
> On Sat, 11 Mar 2006, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
>
>> Dear seqfans and editors:
>> 
>> There is a contributor to the OEIS who in the past has sent in some 
>> interesting
>> sequences, but most of his submissions are to my mind not very interesting.
>> 
>> Two or three weeks ago, finding that I was spending all my time
>> processing his sequences, which were flooding the OEIS,
>> (there were a huge number of them)
>> I asked him never to send in further sequences.
>> 
>> I felt that he was trying to make the OEIS look ridiculous.
>> 
>> He has now resumed submissions.  His latest submissions are
>> of the form:
>> 
>> Numbers n such that n and 2n+1 belong to AXXXXXX.
>> 
>> Of course there is the potential here for 100,000 new
>> sequences.
>> 
>> Then we can have
>> 
>> Numbers n such that n and 2n-1 belong to AXXXXXX.,
>> 
>> another 100,000, and then
>> 
>> Numbers n such that n and n^2+1 belong to AXXXXXX.,
>> 
>> another 100,000, and so on.
>> 
>> My question is, would you please tell me what I should do?
>> 
>> I will keep track of the number of replies that I get that say,
>> this is just fine, accept them all
>> and those that say
>> enough already, pipe his submissions to /dev/null
>> 
>> Thanks
>> 
>> NJAS
>> 
>