Additive sequences

Ralf Stephan ralf at ark.in-berlin.de
Tue Sep 19 09:10:37 CEST 2006


You wrote 
> There was some discussion on this list a while back
> about what to call sequences where
> a(n*m) = a(n) + a(m) whenever gcd(n,m) = 1.
> I don't think there was any consensus reached,
> but one of the possibilities, "additive", was and is
> in use in the database, so I guess it wins by default.

I'm not sure if this is a good name, as it implies having
something to do with 'additive number theory' which is 
way off here.

(I'm not against, just count it as abstention)


Regards,
ralf








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