[seqfan] Re: Name and Entries for A059270

[franktaw at netscape.net]

I don't see why 0 should be omitted with the current definition. It is 
the sum of 1 consecutive integers: 0, and of the 0 integers that follow 
it (since the sum of an empty sequence is zero).

Franklin T. Adams-Watters

-----Original Message-----
From: Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu>
To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
Sent: Tue, Dec 10, 2013 9:12 pm
Subject: [seqfan] Re: Name and Entries for A059270


Good suggestion. I think the formula would be a good name for A059270, 
with
the current name as a comment: "Apart from the first term, ...".

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University


On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 4:04 PM, <charliemath at optonline.net> wrote:

> SeqFans,
>
> Since the name of A057290, 0, 3, 15, 42, ..., is “Numbers which are 
both
> the sum of n+1 consecutive integers and the sum of the n immediately 
higher
> consecutive integers,” would it not be more accurate to omit 0 from 
the
> sequence?
>
>     Alternatively, since first entry of A059270 is 0, would it not be 
more
> accurate for its name to be a formula like “n*(n+1)*(2*n+1)/2”?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Charlie
>
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