[seqfan] Poster mentioning OEIS

Omar E. Pol info at polprimos.com
Thu Nov 17 14:01:06 CET 2011


Dear Neil, 

The timeline starts at 20,000 BC. Note that the Ishango bone appears to be 
the oldest known mathematical object that contains a integer sequence with 
distinct numbers, dated from 18,000 to 20,000 BC. But the oldest known tally 
stick is the Lebombo bone which is a piece of baboon fibula with 29 notches, 
dated 35,000 BC.  
For further information see https://oeis.org/A200066 
  
Best regards, 
Omar E. Pol 

>Dear SeqFans, WolframAlpha has made a nice poster
>following the Timeline of Systematic Data and the Development of Computable 
>Knowledge
>from Cave Paintings to the present day. The OEIS gets mentioned at year 1973.
>The poster is in several parts: see especially part 6:

>http://www.wolframalpha.com/docs/timeline/computable-knowledge-history-6.html

>I realize there's an implicit suggestion here that 50,000 years ago I would
>have been collecting sequences of paintings of antelopes. But it
>is still a nice poter!

>Neil






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