[seqfan] Re: Submission suggestion

[Alonso Del Arte]

FYI, Tony's OEISTrim (for Mathematica) is on this page:
http://oeis.org/wiki/Sequence_Tools Al

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 3:54 PM, Harvey P. Dale <hpd1 at nyu.edu> wrote:

>        Some months ago, Tony Noe submitted a Mma program that attempts
> to trim a lengthy sequence to an appropriate length for the OEIS.  He
> called the program OEISTrim.  I find it very useful.  Because it only
> produces a suggested "trimming" of terms, it is not unduly procrustean.
> Perhaps Tony could submit it again, and other seqfan folks could tweak
> it as desired.  Then it would become a standard, useful, but still not
> binding method of deciding how many terms to submit.
>
>        Best,
>
>        Harvey
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Saturday, November 05, 2011 3:22 PM
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> Cc: njas at research.att.com
> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Submission suggestion
>
> David Wilson suggested:
>
>  The submission page
> should automatically format the terms to database standards. This would
> include dropping terms if necessary to stay within formatting limits,
>
> Me: No, no, no. There are many reasons why we sometimes want more terms
> than usual (sequences that are hard to compute, sequences where we need
> to show a few more terms to distinguish it from its nbrs, also we may
> change the so-called limit at some time)
>
> This is a bad idea!
>
> Neil
>
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