misleading plots

N. J. A. Sloane njas at research.att.com
Mon Oct 2 04:52:33 CEST 2006


Dear Seqfans,  

Using the new "graph" button one can see plots of thousands
of terms of many sequences.

Often there is an "obvious" rate of growth - the points
"clearly" lie on a straight line or curve of some kind.

There's a new entry in the Index to the OEIS listing
some sequences where this "obvious" rate of growth 
(even looking at a large number of terms) is 
complete nonsense!

deceptive plots: A014612, A034598, A034415

NJAS






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