[seqfan] Re: Looking back at your earliest sequences

[franktaw at netscape.net]

It appears my first sequences were A022016 and A02207. I'm actually 
rather disappointed that no one has done anything with them.

Franklin T. Adams-Watters

-----Original Message-----

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Susanne Wienand 
<susanne.wienand at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hello Al,
>
> I'm rather pleased than surpised that others improved the sequences 
which I
> submitted (A194595...). They added graphs, tables, code which fits 
for the
> OEIS...
> Moreover, I got useful hints.
> Peter Luschny found the descriptive name of 'meander' for the kind of
> curves the sequences count. He helped me to formulate a definition 
for this
> kind of meander and suggested to plot meanders. It was because of a 
plot
> that I found an error in the name of the sequences and could correct 
it.
> So most important for me was the improvement of the entries. Certainly
> connections to other sequences are also very pleasant.
>
> Regards, Susanne
>
>
> 2013/3/12 Robert Munafo <mrob27 at gmail.com>
>
> > 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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