[seqfan] Re: On editors-authors discussions

Alonso Del Arte alonso.delarte at gmail.com
Sat Sep 10 05:56:32 CEST 2011


What would help a lot of times is just saying what it is that one is
pondering that the sequence came up.

Good: "I was studying the molecular structure of dilithium. If you count the
vertices in a normal crystallization ... "
Bad: "I like it because each term has several 7s." (and nothing else is
said)

Al

On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 6:32 AM, peter.luschny
<peter.luschny at googlemail.com>wrote:

> > Paolo Lava: The most “creative” question I received was: “Who will ever
> > look at this sequence?”.
>
> This /is/ an important question which every author should pose to himself.
> If the author has no answer it might be better not to submit.
> If he has an answer he can give it to the editors too; even better he could
> make it clear to every potential reader by explaining the significance
> right
> in the comments or by the formulas or by the references.
>
> > Paolo Lava: The most “creative” question I received was: “Who will ever
> > look at this sequence?”.
>
> From another point of view: Isn't this the most crucial question for you
> as an author? Just dumping some integers to a database is not what you
> want.
>
> As an author you want to be read, right? And you are interested to see
> comments and formulas to be added. So you have to advertise your sequences.
> For instance you could write an article for the journal of integer
> sequences;
> or perhaps just start writing about them on a blog and link to it.
>
> Or even to be bold like this guy and use twitter to inform your friends:
> http://twitter.com/#!/sequitter
>
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