[seqfan] Editing someone else's comment

Hans Havermann gladhobo at teksavvy.com
Sun Jul 21 19:36:06 CEST 2013


R.J. Mathar's 2009 comment in http://oeis.org/A146556 misspells lose/loses twice. One does not feel empowered to edit such comments lest one destroy the historicity of the effort. Even if Richard himself were to edit it, would he be obliged to change the date?

In a similar vein, I recently had a look at http://oeis.org/A005820 with an eye to clarifying the two existing comments but feeling pretty much helpless in so doing. Both Daniel Forgues and Jon Perry refer to Achim Flammenkamp's The Multiply Perfect Numbers Page. That page, last updated in February 2013, has (for "all discovered?") "yes and proved" for abundancy 1, and just "yes" for abundancy 3. The implicit implication is that, for A005820, the finitude and completeness is NOT proved (something made more explicit near the bottom of Walter Nissen's linked page). This is why (presumably) A005820 does not entertain keywords "fini" and "full". So why does Daniel ask "Is there a proof that there are no other 3-perfect numbers?" and Jon answer "this list is complete". Argh!


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