Longest finite sequence in OEIS

[franktaw at netscape.net]

Well, if you don't count such sequences as finite, there are a fair number of sequences in the database marked as finite that would not count as such.
 
I think the rule here is that a sequence that counts how many objects (of some type) there are of class n (in some classification) is considered finite when there are only finitely many objects (of that type).
 
Franklin T. Adams-Watters
 
-----Original Message-----
From: David Wasserman dwasserm at earthlink.com


I'm not sure these sequences are finite; their definitions are valid for any n > 0. 
Is it our convention that a sequence is "fini" if it has only finitely many nonzero terms? It would be strange to apply that convention to 
A000004 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ... or 
A000007 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0 ... 
 
On May 17, 2006, at 2:35 PM, Christian G. Bower wrote: 
 
> I can do better than that one with A038087. 
> 
> I never figured out how many terms are in it, but the sum of the > terms is 
> 2^2^2^2^65536 
> 
> A038084 has 3,211,265 terms. 
> A038085 has too many terms to write out the value. 
> A038086 and A038087 each go up from there. 
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