[seqfan] Re: xkcd today

[israel at math.ubc.ca]

"Jenny's constant" is a terminating decimal: 867.5309.  See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/867-5309/Jenny

Robert Israel
University of British Columbia 

On Apr 26 2012, Alonso Del Arte wrote:

>I hesitate to call it a "cartoon," but it is a very interesting table. In
>fact, there could be a few sequences suggested by the cartoon that ought to
>be in the OEIS but perhaps are not, like the decimal expansion of Jenny's
>constant or the continued fraction of the approximation to the square root
>of 2 in the "pro" tip.
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>Al
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>On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:
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>> >="Neil Sloane" <njasloane at gmail.com>
>> > Today's xkcd cartoon http://xkcd.com/1047/ honors OEIS Editor and
>> > Board Member Robert Munafo
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>> Nice!
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>> Conversely, searching the OEIS for [xkcd] gets 5 hits (some buried in web
>> URL links).
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>> Googling the web for [xkcd oeis] (nice search string!<;-) claims "About 
>> 128,000 results". Many sem to refer to forums.xkcd.com, which might be a 
>> good a place to mine for new sequences or apt comments on existing 
>> ones...
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