[seqfan] Re: Concordance to "What's Special About This Number?"

Tanya Khovanova mathoflove-seqfan at yahoo.com
Sun May 30 17:47:55 CEST 2010


In my "Number Gossip" page numbergossip.com I have a collection of number properties that often relate to sequences. 

I have records of some of these connections off-line. I am not sure what to do with them.

Tanya

--- On Sat, 5/29/10, N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com> wrote:

> From: N. J. A. Sloane <njas at research.att.com>
> Subject: [seqfan]  Concordance to "What's Special About This Number?"
> To: seqfan at seqfan.eu
> Cc: njas at research.att.com
> Date: Saturday, May 29, 2010, 10:06 PM
> Dear Seq Fans, 
> 
> Erich Friedman has a very nice (and deservedly popular)
> page called 
> '''[http://www2.stetson.edu/~efriedma/numbers.html What's
> Special About This Number?]'''
> (All the links and formatting in this email are in
> wiki-talk
> and refer to the oeis.org/wiki)
> 
> Erich's page does not, however, mention the sequences in
> the OEIS where these numbers can be found (and from where I
> suspect most of the entries were taken).
> 
> I have created a set of ten pages on the oeis wiki as a
> snapshot of his page as of May 23, 2010,
> with pointers to the corresponding entries in the OEIS. The
> pages are:
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 0) | Part 0: 0 to 999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 1) | Part 1: 1000 to 1999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 2) | Part 2: 2000 to 2999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 3) | Part 3: 3000 to 3999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 4) | Part 4: 4000 to 4999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 5) | Part 5: 5000 to 5999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 6) | Part 6: 6000 to 6999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 7) | Part 7: 7000 to 7999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 8) | Part 8: 8000 to 8999]],
> [[Annotated version of "What's Special About This Number?"
> (Part 9) | Part 9: 9000 to 9999]].
> 
> Sequence fans are invited to add more pointers to these
> pages, by adding the appropriate A-numbers to the
> entries.  (To do this, click the EDIT tab on the page)
> 
> This is great fun, by the way - you get to figure out what
> sequence
> or sequences the description refers to.
> 
> In some cases it may be necessary to create new sequences -
> see A158304 and A169823 for examples (if the sequence was
> not yet in the OEIS).
> 
> Once this project is finished all the A-numbers will be
> converted to links to the OEIS.
> 
> I should add that this is being done with Erich Friedman's
> approval.
> 
> I did not do a very good job of converting the original
> html format to wiki format, and in some cases you may have
> to refer to Erich's page to figure out the meaning or the
> links.
> 
> You may well find better descriptions for some
> numbers.  If so, please send them to Erich and make the
> corresponding changes on the wiki pages. 
> 
> The wiki software is complaining that these pages are too
> long. I decided to ignore these complaints.
> 
> I had to learn about the wiki formatting language to do
> this -
> there are many helpful pages, such as
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Tutorial_%28Formatting%29
> 
> Of course you will need to be a registered oeis wiki user
> to do this.
> 
> Neil Sloane
> 
> 
> 
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