[seqfan] Re: Searching OEIS question

[Neil Sloane]

Frank, I could run a grep or sed command for you on
my private copy of the whole database, if you
send me a command to run


On Mon, May 20, 2013 at 4:35 PM, Frank Ruskey <ruskey at cs.uvic.ca> wrote:

> I am trying to find all "nested recurrence relations" that occur in OEIS.
> These have the form  a(n) = ....a(..... a ( ..... ) ..... )  where the
> parens are nested as shown.
> How to do this in a semi-intelligent fashion?  I started just trying to
> find entries
> that contained "a(a(".  The trouble is that the oeis seems to treat "(" as
> a wildcard.
> Is there some way to force it to recognize the "(" character?  Or search
> for the
> more general expression at the beginning of this message?  Thanks for any
> help.
> -Frank
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