[seqfan] Re: A158248

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Thu Oct 18 15:37:38 CEST 2012


To save time I deleted that inscrutable C program
Neil

On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 9:10 AM, Maximilian Hasler <
maximilian.hasler at gmail.com> wrote:

> >> %o A158248 (Other) // C program ...
> >
> >
> >    Does this program really belong here? (Indeed, does it belong
> >    anywhere?)
>
> under the assumption that it is related to the sequence , I vote for
> keeping it put putting it into a separeate .txt file.
>
> As it stands, not only it is cryptic (absolutely not clear what it
> does, but in any case it does not seem to take an "n" as input and
> print out a(n) as output),
> but also rather unreadable (in view of the scrambled formatting, no
> offense to the author), and also unusable since the comments don't use
> /*...*/ but // syntax.
>
> That said, I apologize for this message which should go on a list
> which has a title and purpose other than "Sequence Fans". IMO that
> latter (i.e. seqfan.eu) should be devoted to "mathematics only",
> and a more specific list for all other OEIS related aspects &
> technicalities needs to be created... (As has been remarked, the "OEIS
> news" list is unused. Should it be more general "OEIS discussions" or
> the like?)
>
> Maximilian
>
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