[seqfan] Re: A174397 and primes with negative value.

T. D. Noe noe at sspectra.com
Fri Mar 19 23:42:38 CET 2010


>-----Original Message-----
>From: Richard Mathar <mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl>
>
>V. Orlovsky is defending his definition in A174397 (with negative
>numbers,
>obviously) with a link to
>http://primes.utm.edu/notes/faq/negative_primes.html
>arguing that primes can be negative numbers, so the mention of absolute
>values in the definition is not needed. I cannot make friend with that
>idea.
>Is there a general consensus (at least within the OEIS) that primes are
>>=2 ?

IMHO, in OEIS we should take "prime" to a positive number.  Why complicate
matters?  I think that the terms of this sequence should be negated so that
only the first two are negative.

Tony





More information about the SeqFan mailing list