[seqfan] Initial term exceeding (10^9001)-1

Robert Munafo mrob27 at gmail.com
Fri Nov 20 23:01:39 CET 2009


That's funny. I remember back when a sequence couldn't start with
anything larger than 1000. (-:

I'd say "no" because the initial term would take a stack of over 130
punch cards with $ signs in the 6th column. Never mind the keypunch
operators at Murray Hill -- what happens if you drop the stack?

Michael Porter wrote:
> [...]
> Are we allowed to have a sequence that starts with a >9000-digit number?

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