[seqfan] Re: Wieferich, Wilson and Wolstenholme primes less than 10^n

[Charles Greathouse]

Feel free to edit the sequences to give the search bound!

Charles Greathouse
Analyst/Programmer
Case Western Reserve University


On Wed, Aug 20, 2014 at 1:39 AM, Felix Fröhlich <felix.froe at googlemail.com>
wrote:

> Yes, I agree that the sequences themselves are not particularly
> interesting. I note that the search bounds are already in A001220
> and A007540. The search bound for Wall-Sun-Sun primes is mentioned in
> A244801. The next term of A088164 must be larger than 10^9 as established
> by McIntosh and Roettger, although currently that isn't explicitly stated
> on the sequence page.
>
>
> 2014-08-20 4:47 GMT+02:00 Charles Greathouse <charles.greathouse at case.edu
> >:
>
> > So all of the underlying sequences -- Wiefrich primes, Wilson primes, and
> > Wolstenholme primes -- are interesting. (If you needed more W* primes,
> > consider Wall-Sun-Sun primes.) The trouble is just that the sequences are
> > (1) hard to look up, (2) not of themselves very interesting, and (3)
> > base-dependent. When there are sequences it's best to keep information
> > there.
> >
> > Charles Greathouse
> > Analyst/Programmer
> > Case Western Reserve University
> >
> >
> > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 6:17 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > > The rejected sequences all had a LOT of zero terms, and one or two or
> in
> > > one case three nonzero terms.  Considered purely as sequences, they
> were
> > > not very interesting, and did not warrant
> > > having their own entries.
> > >
> > > A sequence like 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 doesn't deserve its own entry.
> > > That probably was not one of yours, but it is similar.
> > >
> > > The best thing to do is to add the content of the sequence as a comment
> > on
> > > the underlying sequence.
> > >
> > > Say as a comment, not as a new sequence, that *****  is 1 1 1
> 0,0,0,0,...
> > >
> > > Best regards
> > >
> > > Neil
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, Aug 19, 2014 at 12:39 PM, Felix Fröhlich <
> > > felix.froe at googlemail.com>
> > > wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I recently drafted four sequences, whose addition to the OEIS was
> > > rejected.
> > > > I am not complaining about the rejection, but I would like to gather
> > some
> > > > opinions on whether such sequences in general should be in the OEIS
> or
> > > not.
> > > > The sequences gave the number of Wall-Sun-Sun, Wieferich, Wilson and
> > > > Wolstenholme primes in the interval [10^n, 10^(n+1)] (see A244801,
> > > A001220,
> > > > A007540 and A088164 for definitions of these primes).
> > > >
> > > > All of those sequences consisted of a lot of zeros. There is
> currently
> > no
> > > > known Wall-Sun-Sun prime and it is an open problem whether any such
> > prime
> > > > exists. The sequence for Wilson primes for example started (with
> offset
> > > 0)
> > > > 1, 1, 1, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 0.
> > > >
> > > > My question is, should those sequences be in the OEIS, maybe in
> another
> > > > form? In order to avoid the many zeros, the definition could be
> changed
> > > to
> > > > "a(n) = number of W...... primes less than 10^n". For the Wilson
> > primes,
> > > > for example, this would give the sequence (with offset 1): 1, 2, 3,
> 3,
> > 3,
> > > > 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3, 3
> > > >
> > > > Further terms are currently unknown. The latest search went to
> 2*10^13
> > > > according to the results reported in http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.3436
> > > >
> > > > Would those adjusted sequences make sense?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Regards,
> > > >
> > > > Felix
> > > >
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