[seqfan] Re: First fini sequence in the table?

[Neil Sloane]

I agree with Charles's list .
However, as I remarked in the Preface to the 1973 book,
some sequences were given the benefit of the doubt, like
the sequence of Mersenne primes (which could still be a finite
sequence as far as anyone knows).
Neil


On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 1:31 PM, Charles Greathouse <
charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote:

> It looks to me like the only finite sequences in the HIS were
>
> %N A000797 Numbers that are not the sum of 4 tetrahedral numbers.
> %N A000926 Euler's "numerus idoneus" (idoneal, or suitable, or convenient
> numbers).
> %N A001259 A sequence of sorted odd primes 3=p_1 < p_2 < ... < p_m such
> that p_i-2 divides the product p_1*p_2*...*p_(i-1) of the earlier primes
> and each prime factor of p_i-1 is a prime factor of twice the product.
> %N A002205 The RAND Corporation list of a million random digits.
> %N A003171 Discriminants of orders of imaginary quadratic fields with 1
> class per genus (a finite sequence).
>
> so that seems a 5-way tie for priority in 1973.
>
> Charles Greathouse
> Analyst/Programmer
> Case Western Reserve University
>
>
> On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 12:55 PM, <franktaw at netscape.net> wrote:
>
> > By A-number, the first few fini sequences are A000053, A000054, A000797,
> > A000926, A001049, A001219, A001228, A001259, A001272, and A001293.
> >
> > On another issue, there are sequences such as A164081 that are finite in
> > the sense that from some point on they are zero. I think some such
> > sequences are marked "fini", while others (like A164081) just have lots
> of
> > zeros. We really ought to have a standard for this. (If we do decide
> these
> > should be marked finite, A000004 would  of course be an exception.)
> >
> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
> > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list <seqfan at list.seqfan.eu>
> > Sent: Sun, Dec 15, 2013 11:39 am
> > Subject: [seqfan] First fini sequence in the table?
> >
> >
> > As most of us know, for a long time Neil excluded finite sequences,
> though
> > he made exceptions for sequences not known to be infinite (e.g., Mersenne
> > primes) and "for certain important number-theoretic sequences,such as
> > Euler's idoneal (or suitable) numbers."
> >
> > This raises the question: was A926 the first sequence in the OEIS known
> to
> > be finite? At what point were the keywords fini and full accepted?
> >
> > Al
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