About the page "Hints for Using OEIS"

[Russ Cox]

>> So, for example, the search for
>> Polya 1987
>> does not find anything, because of that 1987,
>> and one has to resort to ref:Polya ref:1987
>> 
>> I think that this behavior, which is not exactly intuitive,
>> should be stated in the hint page.
> 
> The hints page describes what *should* be happening.
> The fact that the search results disagree is a bug in the
> search results.  I'll take a closer look later, but for now
> rest assured that this is simply a bug in the search.

The handling of single numbers should be fixed now.

http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=906180359   (3 results)
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=906180359,  (1 result)
http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/?q=Polya+1987  (8 results)

Thanks for the detailed report.

Russ