Re: Ánsar, ganso, oca: COMMENT on A 020988 = A084180 = A108018 !

[Marc LeBrun]

 >=Antti Karttunen <antti.karttunen at gmail.com>
 > Please use that Lookup-feature of the database before submitting, 
with the first or two entries of your "new" sequence omitted!

I agree that it would be excellent for everyone to always be more 
careful with submissions.

However wouldn't it be a good idea to *automatically* subject ALL 
submissions to an application of superseeker, or some variant thereof?

This would both provide a quick filter for trivial duplicates, and 
perhaps fast automatic "discovery" for interesting results too (eg it 
could add comment lines about any superseeker "hit" sequences).

It would add some overhead, but enhance the overall quality of OEIS 
submissions, surely worthwhile.


PS: While I'm suggesting more work for others, I'd like to also again 
recommend the related project of automatically applying (some variant 
of) superseeker to ALL the "core" sequences (at least), generating 
any absent cross-references to other sequences.  If possible, the 
transformed sequences which are new should be added.  This project 
could be crunched off-line from the main OEIS, filtered (for hits, 
duplicates etc), checked and then added as a single big "update" not 
requiring detailed human scrutiny of each submitted entry.