[seqfan] Re: A070729

[Olivier Gerard]

Harvey,

I agree. Every such sequence should be clearly located in time and space
and have an external authoritative source (itself clearly located with edition
year, etc.) for such empirical or cultural lists to avoid contests
from casual readers
and endless arguments.

Olivier


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 9:12 PM, Harvey P. Dale <hpd1 at nyu.edu> wrote:
>             Shouldn't this sequence have either a comment or an addition
> to its definition to state the date as of which it is correct?  To
> generalize this: whenever a sequence purports to list terms taken from
> an external, non-mathematical, empirical source (e.g., price of
> first-class postage stamps in the U.S. over time) shouldn't the sequence
> have an as-of date shown?
>
>             Best,
>
>             Harvey
>
>
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