[seqfan] Re: suggestion for a competition?

[Alonso Del Arte]

Maybe we could reserve for undergraduates competitions like the ones that
Andrew suggests, and for high schoolers something more along the lines of
using the OEIS  to assist in brute force number crunching.

As an example of what I'm talking about:

94793566726491594376961593811341306538450183274384606947904359

This references three prime numbers listed in the OEIS, and knowing that
could help speed up the factorization. But perhaps the number would have to
be larger so that it's not so easily factored by a sophisticated program
like Mathematica, which on its own tries different factorization methods to
tackle large numbers.

Al

On Thu, Oct 27, 2011 at 5:53 PM, <israel at math.ubc.ca> wrote:

> To make it fair, I guess "high school" and "undergraduates" should be
> separate categories (if you want the competition open to both).
> But since the boundaries between these in different places around the world
> are not all at the same level, the eligibility criteria may need
> careful thought.
> Cheers,
> Robert
>
>
> On Oct 27 2011, N. J. A. Sloane wrote:
>
>
>> Dear SeqFans, A science writer that I know is thinking of
>> writing an article about the OEIS.
>>
>> She asked me if I could think of a competition
>> for students. For example, there might be a prize for the
>> best new sequence submitted by a student.
>> (Student could mean high school student, or perhaps undergraduate)
>>
>> Or, the best formula for a sequence that did not already have
>> a formula.
>>
>> Or, the best "illustration of initial terms" (the kind of picture we have
>> in A000029) for a sequence that at present does not have
>> any illustrations
>>
>> Can anyone suggest other competitions?
>>
>> And, if the article appears, we will need a panel
>> of judges - any volunteers?
>>
>> Neil
>>
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