[seqfan] Re: Looking back at your earliest sequences

[Robert Munafo]

On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 4:59 PM, Alonso Del Arte <alonso.delarte at gmail.com>
 wrote:

> I was thinking about the requirements to join SeqFan, and this line of
> thought led me to the question:
>
> Looking back at the earliest sequences you submitted to the OEIS, which
> ones are you most pleasantly surprised to see others follow up on?
>

Hmmm...

The early ones (like A006881, A006877, A006878, A006882, A006883, and
A006886) seem to have gotten the most follow-on response, based on the
number of ASCII characters in their internal format. But that's because
they are (mostly) sequences of general interest, so I would *expect* them
to get a lot of response.

In my case, that would be A100827, the highly cototient numbers. I believe
> it was in 2006 I became aware of Will's comment regarding the connection to
> the primorials. But it wasn't until just now that I noticed Tony's 2010
> comment regarding the connection to A082917, even numbers that can be
> written in more ways as a sum of two odd primes than any smaller even
> number. I'll have to study A082917 in greater detail.
>
> What about the rest of y'all?
>

My sense of pleasure comes more from the sense of accomplishment from my
own work, not from the response of others. For example, I felt a great
sense of accomplishment from computing many terms of A006877,
A006878, A006884 and A006885 on my Apple ][ microcomputer. I wrote the
terms on paper and sent them to Neil 10 years later. I guess it was also
rewarding when I learned that Neil had decided to include them in his
(second) book, but I think the Apple ][ programming effort and the act of
discovering the information somehow felt better overall.

The same is true for my recent work, such as A005646 (which isn't "mine",
but is mainly the product of my work along with that of Andrew Weimholt and
Franklin T. Adams-Watters), because I worked on it for a month and did a
lot of cool multi-CPU parallel programming optimizations.

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