[seqfan] Re: xkcd today

[Alonso Del Arte]

Thanks to the cartoon, Jenny's constant (A182369 <http://oeis.org/A182369>)
is today's Sequence of the Day:
http://oeis.org/wiki/Template:Sequence_of_the_Day_for_May_3

Al

On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:58 PM, Alonso Del Arte
<alonso.delarte at gmail.com>wrote:

> I was a little thrown by the "e/1" part, I would have just written "e." In
> any case, the number in the 'cartoon' seems to be irrational, and Eric
> Weisstein has very recently added it to the OEIS (A182369<http://oeis.org/A182369>).
> Just now, I have selected it as the Sequence of the Day for May 3rd.
>
> Al
>
> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 7:28 PM, <israel at math.ubc.ca> wrote:
>
>> "Jenny's constant" is a terminating decimal: 867.5309.  See
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/**867-5309/Jenny<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.
>>>
>>> Al
>>>
>>> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>  >="Neil Sloane" <njasloane at gmail.com>
>>>> > Today's xkcd cartoon http://xkcd.com/1047/ honors OEIS Editor and
>>>> > Board Member Robert Munafo
>>>>
>>>> Nice!
>>>>
>>>> Conversely, searching the OEIS for [xkcd] gets 5 hits (some buried in
>>>> web
>>>> URL links).
>>>>
>>>> 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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