[seqfan] Offsets of Large Integers Decomposed into Decimal Digits

Hans Havermann gladhobo at teksavvy.com
Mon Jun 16 01:20:59 CEST 2014


The FAQ for "offset" has: "If the sequence gives the decimal expansion of a constant, the offset is the number of digits before the decimal point. All of the examples give non-integers, i.e. real numbers with infinite expansions, suggesting a mindset that sees a constant as just such a number. What if the constant is a large integer?

For example, the decimal expansion of 3^3^3^3 < https://oeis.org/A241292 > is given a huge offset equal to the number of decimal digits in the integer. Doesn't it make more sense to see the expansion as a finite *list* of digits with offset 1?


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