[seqfan] Re: A001476

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Sat Feb 25 22:13:49 CET 2012


I agree with Tony - that is just what I was about to write
Neil

On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 4:01 PM, T. D. Noe <noe at sspectra.com> wrote:

> My two cents: I think it should be marked "full" if the complete sequence
> is shown in https://oeis.org/A001476 not in the b-file.  If the b-file
> completes the sequence, I suggest putting something like "(complete
> sequence)" next to the b-file -- which I did with this sequence a few
> minutes ago.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Tony
>
> At 3:51 PM -0500 2/25/12, Charles Greathouse wrote:
> >The question has been raised before, but I don't think there has been
> >a satisfactory answer.  I think that (1) there should be a clear-cut
> >answer to this question, so people can properly interpret the keyword,
> >and (2) b-files which complete a sequence should have a note to that
> >effect.
> >
> >On the whole I think it would be best to mark these sequences as full,
> >but only once there's consensus on that point.  Otherwise we risk
> >people seeing the keyword and thinking that the terms displayed
> >complete the sequence, which would be bad.
> >
> >Charles Greathouse
> >Analyst/Programmer
> >Case Western Reserve University
> >
> >On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 3:37 PM, Alonso Del Arte
> ><alonso.delarte at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Where would the line be drawn? Is there a finite sequence in the OEIS
> that
> >> is nevertheless too long to be given in full in the B-file?
> >>
> >> When I wrote the first draft of
> >> http://oeis.org/wiki/Clear-cut_examples_of_keywords I looked long and
> hard
> >> for a finite sequence with a long B-file. A056757 was the best I could
> >> find, with a little over fifty thousand terms total. A finite sequence
> with
> >> two or three hundred terms wouldn't have been a clear-cut example of
> >> keyword:fini -keyword:full.
> >>
> >> Al
> >>
> >> On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 12:22 PM, David Wilson
> >><davidwwilson at comcast.net>wrote:
> >>
> >>> A001476 is an example of a finite sequence that is not complete in the
> STU
> >>> lines, but is complete in the b-file.
> >>>
> >>> Perhaps we should mark such sequences as "full" since the data is
> >>> available.
> >>>
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