[seqfan] Re: Rant on Maple code

Joerg Arndt arndt at jjj.de
Fri Aug 14 05:40:31 CEST 2009


* peter.luschny <peter.luschny at googlemail.com> [Aug 14. 2009 08:48]:
> Searching "futurevalue" results in 110 hits.
> 
> [...]

> 
> I thus found the functions
> 2*2^n, 2^k, 16k, 3*3^n, 2n, 16k, 4^n, 4^n, 2*2^n, 3^k.
> 
> [...]

> 
> njas> In this way we may sometimes find explanations for
> njas> sequences that were not known before.
> 
> This is a valid policy for the general case. However,
> I think it should not be applied in the case under
> consideration where this expectation is obviously false.
> 

Doing the work of decoding that futurevalue() code only to realize
I wasted my time was quite annoying for me.


> Cheers Peter
> 




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