[seqfan] Re: web changes (AT) by @ and publishes e-mails
franktaw at netscape.net
franktaw at netscape.net
Wed Jun 30 21:45:26 CEST 2010
Well, yes, but ... people do propose such problems, and other people do
find the right (intended) answer. One should really ask for the most
plausible next term, or some such wording, but we do understand that
that is what is meant.
Actually, we here are uniquely in a position to define such a correct
answer: look up the terms given in the OEIS, and find the matching
sequence with the most references to it. The next term in that sequence
is the answer. (If there are no matches, add the sequence; then there
will be.)
(More formally, one could ask for the smallest Turing machine that
generates the values listed, and ask what it generates for the next
term; but this is not a practical algorithm.)
Franklin T. Adams-Watters
-----Original Message-----
From: Leroy Quet <q1qq2qqq3qqqq at yahoo.com>
Yes, I hope the find-the-next-number-in-this-sequence test suggestion
was meant
in jest. EVERY integer is a correct answer to one of those questions,
which I
suppose most of you know (so I guess the suggestion was indeed meant in
jest).
Thanks,
Leroy Quet
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