From arndt at jjj.de Sun Feb 1 10:22:45 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:22:45 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] polyominoes on square lattice by symmetry Message-ID: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> About P. Leroux, E. Rassart, A. Robitaille, Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes in the Square Lattice Advances in Applied Mathematics, vol.21, no.3, pp.343-380, (October-1998). Could someone check which sequences given on p.377 are missing in the OEIS? At least 1,1,2,7,17,50,131,363,924,2380 is missing. When entering the seqs please spell out the symmetry type (I cannot do this, that's why am asking on the list). Best, jj From info at polprimos.com Sun Feb 1 02:11:01 2015 From: info at polprimos.com (Omar E. Pol) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:11:01 -0300 Subject: [seqfan] A253072. Message-ID: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> Dear Neil, An observation. In the sequences A050476 and A253072 we have that: a(0) = 1 a(1) = 7 a(3) = 95 a(7) = 18447 A253072(2^k-1) = A050476(2^k-1), 0<=k<=m, where m is at least 3. Best regards. Omar E. Pol From arndt at jjj.de Sun Feb 1 11:00:15 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:00:15 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] honeycomb polyominoes Message-ID: <20150201100015.GA5352@jjj.de> Similar to the message before: Dominique Gouyou-Beauchamps, Pierre Leroux, Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes on the Honeycomb Lattice, Theoretical Computer Science, vol.346, no.2-3, pp.307-334, (November-2005). p.320: 1 3 11 38 120 348 939 2412 5973 14394 34056 79602 184588 426036 980961 2256420 5189577 11939804 27485271 63308532 145903992 336418179 775996665 1790486717 4132195707 9538127076 22018993552 50835685427 117372288297 271006745255 625758286777 1444911247194 3336422923431 7704147029616 17789770663899 41078790416848 94856243572216 219035659925172 505782887350567 1167921607616731 2696891148564180 6227492958077133 14380140755028117 33205732845460311 76676631829002129 177056959135248647 408849042325490952 944089080678393018 2180032500563641911 5033997137232724122 11624197004721262104 26841881829357335687 And, at end of page: 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 12, 18, 59, 120, 318, 714, 1743, ... Also p.322: 1, 1, 3, 6, 15, 38, 91, 222, 528, 1250, ... Also several seqs on p.333 Best, jj From njasloane at gmail.com Sun Feb 1 19:35:37 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:35:37 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A253072. In-Reply-To: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> References: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> Message-ID: Interesting comment! Of course it might be a coincidence. Still, I added it to A253072. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Omar E. Pol wrote: > Dear Neil, > > An observation. > In the sequences A050476 and A253072 we have that: > > a(0) = 1 > a(1) = 7 > a(3) = 95 > a(7) = 18447 > > A253072(2^k-1) = A050476(2^k-1), 0<=k<=m, where m is at least 3. > > Best regards. > > Omar E. Pol > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From arndt at jjj.de Mon Feb 2 19:18:21 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:18:21 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: polyominoes on square lattice by symmetry In-Reply-To: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> References: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> Message-ID: <20150202181821.GA6579@jjj.de> Will do all of this (incl. other message) myself, but may well be in several weeks from now. Best regards, jj * Joerg Arndt [Feb 01. 2015 12:03]: > About > P. Leroux, E. Rassart, A. Robitaille, > > Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes in the Square Lattice > Advances in Applied Mathematics, vol.21, no.3, pp.343-380, (October-1998). > > Could someone check which sequences given on > p.377 are missing in the OEIS? > > At least 1,1,2,7,17,50,131,363,924,2380 is missing. > > When entering the seqs please spell out the symmetry type > (I cannot do this, that's why am asking on the list). > > Best, jj > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From penson at lptl.jussieu.fr Tue Feb 3 00:24:08 2015 From: penson at lptl.jussieu.fr (Karol) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:24:08 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Message-ID: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? Thanking in advance, Karol A. Penson From maxale at gmail.com Tue Feb 3 00:52:29 2015 From: maxale at gmail.com (Max Alekseyev) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:52:29 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: Hi Karol, There is a formula A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) PARI/GP code: { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2*k) ) } Regards, Max On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: > Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? > > Thanking in advance, > > Karol A. Penson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From israel at math.ubc.ca Tue Feb 3 02:46:31 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 02 Feb 2015 17:46:31 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric function: A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) Cheers, Robert On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: >Hi Karol, > >There is a formula > >A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, > >which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: > >A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >(k+1) * 4^(n-2k) > >PARI/GP code: > >{ A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >* 4^(n-2*k) ) } > >Regards, >Max > > > >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >> >> Thanking in advance, >> >> Karol A. Penson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From pauldhanna at juno.com Tue Feb 3 03:15:29 2015 From: pauldhanna at juno.com (Paul D Hanna) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 02:15:29 GMT Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Message-ID: <20150202.211529.23111.0@webmail03.dca.untd.com> Also, a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k) * 2^(n-k) * binomial(2*k+2, k)/(k+1). a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k) * 2^(n-k) * A000108(k+1). This can be derived from the relation a(n) = [x^n] (1+4*x+x^2)^(n+1) / (n+1) which is due to G.f.: (1/x) * Series_Reversion( x/(1+4*x+x^2) ). However, the formula from Max seems to be more efficient. Paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Max Alekseyev To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Cc: Karol Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:52:29 -0500 Hi Karol, There is a formula A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) PARI/GP code: { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2*k) ) } Regards, Max On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: > Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? > > Thanking in advance, > > Karol A. Penson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From hv at crypt.org Tue Feb 3 18:34:58 2015 From: hv at crypt.org (hv at crypt.org) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:34:58 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring Message-ID: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 at the 0 digits. For example 29648^2 = 879003904 so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What is the largest element of S? .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 (cardinality of the set). I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' in , and will go update the sequences on the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if someone could confirm some or all of the values though. I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be of interest. Hugo --- With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" 2: 2 2 3: 18 1849 4: 2 2 5: 3050 266423227914725931 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 8: 2 4 With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" 2: 2 2 3: 6 16 4: 2 2 5: 20 192 6: 13 128 7: 72 32768 8: 3 4 9: 92 69632 10: 42 23552 11: 308 25722880 12: 34 425984 13: 900 717895680 14: 178 1051828224 15: 1739 217079873536 16: 4 8 17: 3349 2270641389568 18: 443 10603200512 19: 4523 156423849771008 20: 387 950175531008 21: 14364 25160124578398208 22: 1827 385584983965696 23: 18672 450589122059304960 24: 234 40722497536 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 32: 5 16 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 01:33:51 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:33:51 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> References: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Message-ID: Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding to the OEIS! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: > Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: > > For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 at > the 0 digits. For example > > 29648^2 = 879003904 > > so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } > > Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What > is > the largest element of S? > > .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 (cardinality > of the set). > > I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but > when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running > project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which > meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. > > I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' > in , and will go update the sequences on > the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if > someone could confirm some or all of the values though. > > I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, > which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another > approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think > n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. > > With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing > s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough > it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth > adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be > of interest. > > Hugo > --- > With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" > 2: 2 2 > 3: 18 1849 > 4: 2 2 > 5: 3050 266423227914725931 > 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 > 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 > 8: 2 4 > > With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" > 2: 2 2 > 3: 6 16 > 4: 2 2 > 5: 20 192 > 6: 13 128 > 7: 72 32768 > 8: 3 4 > 9: 92 69632 > 10: 42 23552 > 11: 308 25722880 > 12: 34 425984 > 13: 900 717895680 > 14: 178 1051828224 > 15: 1739 217079873536 > 16: 4 8 > 17: 3349 2270641389568 > 18: 443 10603200512 > 19: 4523 156423849771008 > 20: 387 950175531008 > 21: 14364 25160124578398208 > 22: 1827 385584983965696 > 23: 18672 450589122059304960 > 24: 234 40722497536 > 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 > 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 > 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 > 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 > 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 > 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 > 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 > 32: 5 16 > 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 > 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 > 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 > 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 > 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 > 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 > 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 > 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 > 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 > 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 > 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 > 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 > 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 > 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 > 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 > 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 > 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 > 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 > 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 > 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 > 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 > 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 > 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 > 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 > 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 > 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 > 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 > 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 > 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 > 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 01:36:17 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:36:17 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: References: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Message-ID: Hugo, Is what I meant to say... Hugo, certainly those two sequences are worth adding to the OEIS! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding > to the OEIS! Please do so! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: > >> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: >> >> For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 >> at >> the 0 digits. For example >> >> 29648^2 = 879003904 >> >> so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } >> >> Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What >> is >> the largest element of S? >> >> .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 >> (cardinality >> of the set). >> >> I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but >> when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running >> project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which >> meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. >> >> I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' >> in , and will go update the sequences on >> the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if >> someone could confirm some or all of the values though. >> >> I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, >> which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another >> approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think >> n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. >> >> With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing >> s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough >> it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth >> adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be >> of interest. >> >> Hugo >> --- >> With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" >> 2: 2 2 >> 3: 18 1849 >> 4: 2 2 >> 5: 3050 266423227914725931 >> 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 >> 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 >> 8: 2 4 >> >> With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" >> 2: 2 2 >> 3: 6 16 >> 4: 2 2 >> 5: 20 192 >> 6: 13 128 >> 7: 72 32768 >> 8: 3 4 >> 9: 92 69632 >> 10: 42 23552 >> 11: 308 25722880 >> 12: 34 425984 >> 13: 900 717895680 >> 14: 178 1051828224 >> 15: 1739 217079873536 >> 16: 4 8 >> 17: 3349 2270641389568 >> 18: 443 10603200512 >> 19: 4523 156423849771008 >> 20: 387 950175531008 >> 21: 14364 25160124578398208 >> 22: 1827 385584983965696 >> 23: 18672 450589122059304960 >> 24: 234 40722497536 >> 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 >> 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 >> 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 >> 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 >> 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 >> 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 >> 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 >> 32: 5 16 >> 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 >> 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 >> 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 >> 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 >> 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 >> 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 >> 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 >> 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 >> 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 >> 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 >> 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 >> 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 >> 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 >> 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 >> 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 >> 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 >> 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 >> 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 >> 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 >> 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 >> 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 >> 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 >> 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 >> 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 >> 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 >> 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 >> 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 >> 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 >> 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 >> 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > From hv at crypt.org Wed Feb 4 02:52:19 2015 From: hv at crypt.org (hv at crypt.org) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:52:19 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <201502040152.t141qJP10329@crypt.org> Now proposed as A254637, A254638. (Given it's otherwise the same code as discussed below for A113917/8, maybe this would be a better example for someone else to confirm.) Hugo Neil Sloane wrote: :Hugo, Is what I meant to say... : :Hugo, certainly those two sequences are worth adding :to the OEIS! Please do so! : :Best regards :Neil : :Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. :11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. :Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. :Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com :Email: njasloane at gmail.com : : :On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: : :> Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding :> to the OEIS! Please do so! :> :> Best regards :> Neil :> :> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. :> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. :> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. :> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com :> Email: njasloane at gmail.com :> :> :> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: :> :>> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: :>> :>> For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 :>> at :>> the 0 digits. For example :>> :>> 29648^2 = 879003904 :>> :>> so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } :>> :>> Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What :>> is :>> the largest element of S? :>> :>> .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 :>> (cardinality :>> of the set). :>> :>> I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but :>> when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running :>> project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which :>> meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. :>> :>> I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' :>> in , and will go update the sequences on :>> the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if :>> someone could confirm some or all of the values though. :>> :>> I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, :>> which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another :>> approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think :>> n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. :>> :>> With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing :>> s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough :>> it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth :>> adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be :>> of interest. :>> :>> Hugo :>> --- :>> With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" :>> 2: 2 2 :>> 3: 18 1849 :>> 4: 2 2 :>> 5: 3050 266423227914725931 :>> 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 :>> 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 :>> 8: 2 4 :>> :>> With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" :>> 2: 2 2 :>> 3: 6 16 :>> 4: 2 2 :>> 5: 20 192 :>> 6: 13 128 :>> 7: 72 32768 :>> 8: 3 4 :>> 9: 92 69632 :>> 10: 42 23552 :>> 11: 308 25722880 :>> 12: 34 425984 :>> 13: 900 717895680 :>> 14: 178 1051828224 :>> 15: 1739 217079873536 :>> 16: 4 8 :>> 17: 3349 2270641389568 :>> 18: 443 10603200512 :>> 19: 4523 156423849771008 :>> 20: 387 950175531008 :>> 21: 14364 25160124578398208 :>> 22: 1827 385584983965696 :>> 23: 18672 450589122059304960 :>> 24: 234 40722497536 :>> 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 :>> 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 :>> 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 :>> 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 :>> 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 :>> 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 :>> 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 :>> 32: 5 16 :>> 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 :>> 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 :>> 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 :>> 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 :>> 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 :>> 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 :>> 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 :>> 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 :>> 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 :>> 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 :>> 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 :>> 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 :>> 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 :>> 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 :>> 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 :>> 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 :>> 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 :>> 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 :>> 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 :>> 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 :>> 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 :>> 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 :>> 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 :>> 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 :>> 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 :>> 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 :>> 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 :>> 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 :>> 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 :>> 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 :>> :>> :>> _______________________________________________ :>> :>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ :>> :> :> : :_______________________________________________ : :Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From maxale at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 03:06:14 2015 From: maxale at gmail.com (Max Alekseyev) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:06:14 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] self-referential forms Message-ID: SeqFans, I've recently tried to formalize and give some counts for the question on self-referential forms at MathOverflow: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/194905/compiling-self-referential-forms In particular, I computed two sequences there, which may be considered for addition to the OIES. I'm however not sure if they are motivated enough and not too special for the general interest. So I'd like to know your opinion in this respect. Regards, Max From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 04:03:31 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:03:31 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: self-referential forms In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Max, Those sequences have 3 things going for them - they were created by one of the best contributors to the OEIS (you), they are on the web, and at least one other person on math overflow is interested in them. So, yes, definitely submit them Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Max Alekseyev wrote: > SeqFans, > > I've recently tried to formalize and give some counts for the question > on self-referential forms at MathOverflow: > http://mathoverflow.net/questions/194905/compiling-self-referential-forms > In particular, I computed two sequences there, which may be considered > for addition to the OIES. > I'm however not sure if they are motivated enough and not too special > for the general interest. So I'd like to know your opinion in this > respect. > > Regards, > Max > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From ixitol at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 06:33:57 2015 From: ixitol at gmail.com (Russell Walsmith) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:33:57 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] A sequence of sequence-generating matrices Message-ID: Exploring different numerical sequences* generated by a certain 3 x 3 matrix, I found it to be part of an n x n family with a similar, though increasingly complex, form. I've discovered six entries in this sequence of matrices so far... does anyone see where it goes from here...? http://ixitol.com/MatrixSequence * (e.g., A249578 , A249579 , A249580 ...) From penson at lptmc.jussieu.fr Wed Feb 4 20:01:38 2015 From: penson at lptmc.jussieu.fr (Karol A. Penson) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:01:38 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> Re: A005572 I thank Max Alekseyev, Robert Israel and Paul Hanna for important remarks. Robert's compact form can be further transformed using formula 8.3.2.135, ch.8, p.666 of Yury A. Brychkov, "Handbook of Special Functions, Derivatives, Integrals, Series and Other Formulas", (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008), and the following relation obtains using the classical Gegenbauer polynomials, in Maple notation: A005572(n)=2*(12^(n/2))*(n!/(n+2)!)*GegenbauerC(n, 3/2, 2/sqrt(3)), n=0,1... . Robert, would you like to enter your formula; I will then enter my Gegenbauer version. Best, Karol A. Penson Le 03/02/2015 02:46, israel at math.ubc.ca a ?crit : > And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric > function: > > A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) > > Cheers, > Robert > > On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: > >> Hi Karol, >> >> There is a formula >> >> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, >> >> which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: >> >> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >> (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) >> >> PARI/GP code: >> >> { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >> * 4^(n-2*k) ) } >> >> Regards, >> Max >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >>> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >>> >>> Thanking in advance, >>> >>> Karol A. Penson >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From israel at math.ubc.ca Wed Feb 4 22:40:06 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 04 Feb 2015 13:40:06 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: Done. I note that Peter Luschny has also entered a different hypergeometric form. I don't know how that one was derived. Cheers, Robert On Feb 4 2015, Karol A. Penson wrote: > Re: A005572 > >I thank Max Alekseyev, Robert Israel and Paul Hanna for important remarks. >Robert's compact form can be further transformed using formula >8.3.2.135, ch.8, p.666 > of Yury A. Brychkov, "Handbook of Special Functions, Derivatives, >Integrals, Series and Other Formulas", >(CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008), >and the following relation obtains using the classical Gegenbauer >polynomials, in Maple notation: > > A005572(n)=2*(12^(n/2))*(n!/(n+2)!)*GegenbauerC(n, 3/2, 2/sqrt(3)), >n=0,1... . > >Robert, would you like to enter your formula; I will then enter my >Gegenbauer version. > >Best, > > >Karol A. Penson > > > > > > >Le 03/02/2015 02:46, israel at math.ubc.ca a ?crit : >> And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric >> function: >> >> A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) >> >> Cheers, >> Robert >> >> On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: >> >>> Hi Karol, >>> >>> There is a formula >>> >>> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, >>> >>> which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: >>> >>> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >>> (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) >>> >>> PARI/GP code: >>> >>> { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >>> * 4^(n-2*k) ) } >>> >>> Regards, >>> Max >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >>>> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >>>> >>>> Thanking in advance, >>>> >>>> Karol A. Penson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de Thu Feb 5 20:08:28 2015 From: mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de (Richard J. Mathar) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:08:28 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] g.f. in A157143 Message-ID: <20150205190828.GA14851@mathar.mpia-hd.mpg.de> Is the generating function in A157143 correct? The Maple lines cx := (1-sqrt(1-4*x))/(2*x) ; gx := subs(x=(x/(1+x^2+x^3))^2,cx)*(1-x)/(1+x^2+x^3) ; series(%,x=0,50) ; gfun[seriestolist](%) ; based on the A000108 g.f. generate 1, -1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 2, -2, 4, -5, 8, -13, 18, -32, 46, -77, 123, -192, 325,.. and the mx := (1-x-sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2))/(2*x^2) ; gx := subs(x=(x/(1+x^2+x^3))^2,mx)*(1-x)/(1+x^2+x^3) ; series(%,x=0,50) ; gfun[seriestolist](%) ; based on the A000106 (assuming a typo in the formula) g.f. gives 1, -1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 1, -1, 6, 0, -3, -20, 10, 20, 20, -84, -3, 135, 228 and both don't match. From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Sat Feb 7 22:01:47 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 15:01:47 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe From Rob.Pratt at sas.com Sat Feb 7 23:17:51 2015 From: Rob.Pratt at sas.com (Rob Pratt) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:17:51 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 W W W W W 2 W W W W W 3 W W W W W W 4 W W W W W W 5 W W W W W W 6 W W W W W 7 W W W W 8 W W W 9 W W 10 B B 11 B B B 12 B B B B 13 B B B B B 14 B B B B B B B 15 B B B B B B B B 16 B B B B B B B 17 B B B B B B -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob Selcoe Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Sat Feb 7 23:23:29 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 23:23:29 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Absolute diff and sums not to be shared Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello SeqFans, We want S to be a permutation of the integers >0; We want S to be the lexicographically first seq of its kind (see below); If we take two adjacent integers of S, say p & q, we want that: -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the abs. diff. |p-q| -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the sum (p+q) -> no |p-q|=(p'+q') with p'and q' being two other adjacent integers in S. So S is extended with the smallest integer n such that neither |(n-1)-n| nor [(n-1)+n] has occurred before as a sum or as a diff. of two adjacent integers in S. Sum 3 6 12 11 13 28 27 32 29 22 S(n)= 1 2 4 8 3 10 18 9 23 6 16 ... Dif 1 2 4 5 7 8 9 14 17 10 Hope this is not old hat, Best, ?. From reinhard.zumkeller at gmail.com Sun Feb 8 00:49:11 2015 From: reinhard.zumkeller at gmail.com (Reinhard Zumkeller) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 00:49:11 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Absolute diff and sums not to be shared In-Reply-To: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> References: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Message-ID: see https://oeis.org/draft/A254788 Best, Reinhard 2015-02-07 23:23 GMT+01:00 Eric Angelini : > Hello SeqFans, > We want S to be a permutation of the integers >0; > We want S to be the lexicographically first seq of its kind (see below); > If we take two adjacent integers of S, say p & q, we want that: > -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the abs. diff. |p-q| > -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the sum (p+q) > -> no |p-q|=(p'+q') with p'and q' being two other adjacent integers in S. > > So S is extended with the smallest integer n such that neither |(n-1)-n| > nor [(n-1)+n] has occurred before as a sum or as a diff. of two adjacent > integers in S. > > Sum 3 6 12 11 13 28 27 32 29 22 > S(n)= 1 2 4 8 3 10 18 9 23 6 16 ... > Dif 1 2 4 5 7 8 9 14 17 10 > > Hope this is not old hat, > Best, > ?. > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From Rob.Pratt at sas.com Sun Feb 8 04:43:30 2015 From: Rob.Pratt at sas.com (Rob Pratt) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 03:43:30 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Here it is with unoccupied squares indicated with dots (view with a fixed-width font): ....WWWWW........ ....WWWWW........ ....WWWWW.......W ....WWWW.......WW ....WWW.......WWW .....W.......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. ..BB............. .BBB............. BBBB............. BBBB.......B..... BBBB......BBB.... BBBB.....BBBB.... BBB......BBBB.... BB.......BBBB.... From: Rob Pratt Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 5:18 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: RE: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 W W W W W 2 W W W W W 3 W W W W W W 4 W W W W W W 5 W W W W W W 6 W W W W W 7 W W W W 8 W W W 9 W W 10 B B 11 B B B 12 B B B B 13 B B B B B 14 B B B B B B B 15 B B B B B B B B 16 B B B B B B B 17 B B B B B B -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob Selcoe Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Sun Feb 8 07:52:14 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 00:52:14 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hi again Rob an others, And two more 42-queen variations for n=17: Alternative 1: .....WWWWW....... .....WWWWW....... .....WWWWW......W .....WWWW......WW .....WWW......WWW ......W......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. ...BB............ ..BBB............ .BBBB............ BBBBB......BB.... BBBBB.....BBB.... BBBB......BBB.... BBB.......BBB.... BB........BBB.... Alternative 2: ....WWWW........W ....WWWW.......WW ....WWWW......WWW ....WWWW.....WWWW .....WW......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. .............W... ..BB............. .BBB............. BBBB.......B..... BBBB......BBB.... BBB......BBBB.... BB......BBBBB.... B.......BBBBB.... ........BBBBB.... The symmetry of the W-blocks and the quasi-symmetry of the B-blocks for the second example surprises me. I wonder if there are any solutions for a(n) > floor_(9n^2/64) for any n? Cheers, Bob S -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rob Pratt" Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:43 PM To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 > Here it is with unoccupied squares indicated with dots (view with a > fixed-width font): > > ....WWWWW........ > ....WWWWW........ > ....WWWWW.......W > ....WWWW.......WW > ....WWW.......WWW > .....W.......WWWW > .............WWWW > .............WWW. > .............WW.. > ..BB............. > .BBB............. > BBBB............. > BBBB.......B..... > BBBB......BBB.... > BBBB.....BBBB.... > BBB......BBBB.... > BB.......BBBB.... > > From: Rob Pratt > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 5:18 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: RE: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 > > > Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: > > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > 6 > > 7 > > 8 > > 9 > > 10 > > 11 > > 12 > > 13 > > 14 > > 15 > > 16 > > 17 > > 1 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 2 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 3 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 4 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 5 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 6 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 7 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 8 > > W > > W > > W > > 9 > > W > > W > > 10 > > B > > B > > 11 > > B > > B > > B > > 12 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 13 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 14 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 15 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 16 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 17 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob > Selcoe > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 > > > > > > Hello Seqfans, > > > > The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized > "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some > fascinating problems. > > > > The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. > > > > The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link > to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands > on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an > upper bound, as well. > > > > For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen > placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the > maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the > known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. > > > > I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern > for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the > pattern. > > Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower > bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). > > > > Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number > of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum > number of queens) for a(17)? > > > > Best Wishes, > > Bob Selcoe > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From andrew.weimholt at gmail.com Mon Feb 9 10:29:53 2015 From: andrew.weimholt at gmail.com (Andrew Weimholt) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 01:29:53 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Message-ID: Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew From franktaw at netscape.net Mon Feb 9 11:12:26 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:12:26 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A027624 initial term In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D212680A1EAF46-13DC-37227@webmail-va003.sysops.aol.com> There's the fact that the formula in the definition evaluates to 1 for n = 0. Why do you think it should be 2? Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Weimholt To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 3:29 am Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Mon Feb 9 11:14:12 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:14:12 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A027624 initial term In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D21268490AA7E6-13DC-3722F@webmail-va003.sysops.aol.com> Sorry, I typed the wrong sequence number. Please ignore my previous message. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Weimholt To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 3:29 am Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From peter.luschny at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 11:30:35 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:30:35 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin Message-ID: In A250544, A223069, A250669, A250692 R. H. Hardin gives the empirical recurrence a(n) = 16*a(n-1)-106*a(n-2)+376*a(n-3)-769*a(n-4) +904*a(n-5)-564*a(n-6)+144*a(n-7) I simply wish to observe that these coefficients are listed in the ninth row of Peter Bala's A246117. Peter From seqfan at hasler.fr Wed Feb 11 12:48:59 2015 From: seqfan at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:48:59 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. Maximilian On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Peter Luschny wrote: > In A250544, A223069, A250669, A250692 > R. H. Hardin gives the empirical recurrence > > a(n) = 16*a(n-1)-106*a(n-2)+376*a(n-3)-769*a(n-4) > +904*a(n-5)-564*a(n-6)+144*a(n-7) > > I simply wish to observe that these coefficients are > listed in the ninth row of Peter Bala's A246117. > > Peter From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 13:05:10 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:05:10 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: M. F. Hasler >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. > >Maximilian > > From seqfan at hasler.fr Wed Feb 11 13:23:03 2015 From: seqfan at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:23:03 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Ron, I am also personally against duplicating links (really never understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up doing a search for the other sequence numbers. I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true added value, I think. Maximilian On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. > > It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > >>________________________________ >> From: M. F. Hasler >>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >> >> >>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. >> >>Maximilian >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 13:34:33 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:34:33 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in general. At least it seems that way to me. I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any foreign sequence that happens to reference inwards. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: M. F. Hasler >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >Ron, > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true >added value, I think. > >Maximilian > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. >> >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. >> >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. >> >> >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >>> >>> >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. >>> >>>Maximilian >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Wed Feb 11 14:21:52 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:21:52 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] a(a(n)+a(n+1)) has property X Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03BD24CA4FD9@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello SeqFans, S is the lexico-first permutation of the positive integers with the property ? a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is even ? S = 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 7, 9, 12, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 17, 19, 22, 21, 24, 26, 23, 25, 28, 27, 30, 29, 32, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, ... In other words: a) take two adjacent integers x and y in S b) let (x + y) = z c) a(z) is even. S was extended with the smallest integer not yet in S and not leading to a contradiction. Testing the formula: n = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ... S = 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 7, 9, 12, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 17, 19, 22, 21,... for n=1 then a(1)=1 and a(2)=2 and a(sum) reads a(1+2) reads a(3) which is 4 (even); for n=2 then a(2)=2 and a(3)=4 and a(sum) reads a(2+4) reads a(6) which is 6 (even); for n=3 then a(3)=4 and a(4)=3 and a(sum) reads a(4+3) reads a(7) which is 8 (even); for n=4 then a(4)=3 and a(5)=5 and a(sum) reads a(3+5) reads a(8) which is 10 (even); ... etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remark #1: The seq T, where a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is always odd is already in the OEIS: https://oeis.org/A000027 ;-D But if we force a(1)=2 we then get again a permutation of A000027: T' = 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 8, 10, 15, 12, ,14, 17, 16, 19, 18, 21, 23, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 31, 24, 26, 28, 33, ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remark #2: The seq P, where a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is always prime is also a permutation of of A000027: P = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 9, 13, 10, 17, 12, 19, 14, 15, 23, 29, 31, 16, 37, 41, 18, ... Best, ?. From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 17:23:16 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:23:16 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Just to clarify one point: The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the cross-references section. (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every line) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any foreign > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >________________________________ > > From: M. F. Hasler > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > > > > > >Ron, > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > >added value, I think. > > > >Maximilian > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in > the table will find them. > >> > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > >> > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > this family. > >> > >> > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > >> > >> > >>>________________________________ > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > >>> > >>> > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > manner. > >>> > >>>Maximilian > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Wed Feb 11 20:15:32 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:15:32 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but not the xref field? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Just to clarify one point: > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > cross-references section. > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > line) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > foreign > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > Hardin > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > >added value, I think. > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in > > the table will find them. > > >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > this family. > > >> > > >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > >> > > >> > > >>>________________________________ > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > Hardin > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > manner. > > >>> > > >>>Maximilian > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 20:41:00 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:41:00 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance what sequences are mentioned. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but > not the xref field? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > Just to clarify one point: > > > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > > cross-references section. > > > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > > line) > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not > in > > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with > all > > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > > foreign > > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > > >added value, I think. > > > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link > in > > > the table will find them. > > > >> > > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > without a > > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > > >> > > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > > this family. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>________________________________ > > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > > manner. > > > >>> > > > >>>Maximilian > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> > > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 11 20:56:01 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:56:01 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance what sequences are mentioned. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but > not the xref field? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > Just to clarify one point: > > > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > > cross-references section. > > > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > > line) > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not > in > > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with > all > > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > > foreign > > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > > >added value, I think. > > > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link > in > > > the table will find them. > > > >> > > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > without a > > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > > >> > > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > > this family. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>________________________________ > > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > > manner. > > > >>> > > > >>>Maximilian > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> > > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From peter.luschny at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 21:30:20 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:30:20 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin Message-ID: The discussion went slightly off-topic, and the old habit to change the name of a thread when the topic changes seems to be a forgotten virtue. But let me come back to Hardin's empirical recurrence. I do not think that it is a coincidence that the coefficients appear in Bala's A246117 although this is hard demonstrate at the moment. In the spirit of experimental math let me look also at the recurrences a(n) and b(n) (case 2 and 3 in a more general setup which makes Hardin's c(n) the case 4). a(n) = 4*a(n-1)-5*a(n-2)+2*a(n-3), b(n) = 9*b(n-1)-31*b(n-2)+51*b(n-3)-40*b(n-4)+12*b(n-5), c(n) = 16*c(n-1)-106*c(n-2)+376*c(n-3)-769*c(n-4)+904*c(n-5)-564*c(n-6)+144*c(n-7). So now my problem are meaningful initial terms, a(0), a(1), a(2) and b(0), b(1), b(2), b(3), b(4). Any suggestions for the initial terms? Peter From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 21:35:03 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:35:03 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to cross-references. If you are using the OEIS for what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it will help, but did you look at A...... ? " And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, so it is easy to find them. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance > what sequences are mentioned. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> > entry but > >> not the xref field? >> >> Charles Greathouse >> Analyst/Programmer >> Case Western Reserve University >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >> > wrote: > >> >> > Just to clarify one point: >> > >> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >> > cross-references section. >> > >> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >> > every > >> > line) >> > >> > Best regards >> > Neil >> > >> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >> > Piscataway, NJ. > >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > >> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >> > but not > >> in >> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >> > > >> > > >> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >> > with > >> all >> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >> > any > >> > foreign >> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >> > > >> > > >> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> > > >> > > >________________________________ >> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >Ron, >> > > > >> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >> > should > >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >> > links > >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >> > with only > >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >> > often > >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >> > sequence > >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >> > > > >> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >> > A250676 and > >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >> > up > >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >> > > > >> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >> > have > >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >> > they are > >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >> > a true > >> > > >added value, I think. >> > > > >> > > >Maximilian >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >> > link > >> in >> > > the table will find them. >> > > >> >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >> without a >> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >> > that. > >> > > >> >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >> > this, in > >> > > this family. >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>>________________________________ >> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >> > similar > >> > > manner. >> > > >>> >> > > >>>Maximilian >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >_______________________________________________ >> > > > >> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 11 22:33:49 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:33:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Cross-refs (retitled) In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just pointing out how far we are from doing it that way. I did at one point do some searches for "base" sequences that did not have the keyword, and corrected a few hundred of them. I'm not going to do something similar for the thousands of exceptions to this rule. I guess the first step is for the editors to start uniformly enforcing the rule for both new and modified sequences. Actually, I do object to cross-refs that, if all references of this sort were added, thousands of cross-refs would be added to a single sequence. Consider, for the moment, the effect of adding a cross-ref from A000040 to every sequence that mentions primes. Hints are good, but not when you can't see the trees for the forest. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 2:35 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to cross-references. If you are using the OEIS for what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it will help, but did you look at A...... ? " And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, so it is easy to find them. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance > what sequences are mentioned. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> > entry but > >> not the xref field? >> >> Charles Greathouse >> Analyst/Programmer >> Case Western Reserve University >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >> > wrote: > >> >> > Just to clarify one point: >> > >> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >> > cross-references section. >> > >> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >> > every > >> > line) >> > >> > Best regards >> > Neil >> > >> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >> > Piscataway, NJ. > >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > >> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >> > but not > >> in >> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >> > > >> > > >> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >> > with > >> all >> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >> > any > >> > foreign >> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >> > > >> > > >> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> > > >> > > >________________________________ >> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >Ron, >> > > > >> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >> > should > >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >> > links > >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >> > with only > >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >> > often > >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >> > sequence > >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >> > > > >> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >> > A250676 and > >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >> > up > >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >> > > > >> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >> > have > >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >> > they are > >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >> > a true > >> > > >added value, I think. >> > > > >> > > >Maximilian >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >> > link > >> in >> > > the table will find them. >> > > >> >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >> without a >> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >> > that. > >> > > >> >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >> > this, in > >> > > this family. >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>>________________________________ >> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >> > similar > >> > > manner. >> > > >>> >> > > >>>Maximilian >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >_______________________________________________ >> > > > >> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 22:54:50 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:54:50 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Cross-refs (retitled) In-Reply-To: <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I certainly was not suggesting that if A references B then B should reference A. That has never been a rule. (There are remarks about this in one of the ancient "format of entries" files.) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just pointing out how far we are from > doing it that way. I did at one point do some searches for "base" sequences > that did not have the keyword, and corrected a few hundred of them. I'm not > going to do something similar for the thousands of exceptions to this rule. > > I guess the first step is for the editors to start uniformly enforcing the > rule for both new and modified sequences. > > Actually, I do object to cross-refs that, if all references of this sort > were added, thousands of cross-refs would be added to a single sequence. > Consider, for the moment, the effect of adding a cross-ref from A000040 to > every sequence that mentions primes. Hints are good, but not when you can't > see the trees for the forest. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 2:35 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to > cross-references. > > If you are using the OEIS for > what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help > you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come > up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > > A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it > will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > > And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, > so it is easy to find them. > > > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" >> > gives > >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Neil Sloane >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. >> > Hardin > >> >> >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a >> > glance > >> what sequences are mentioned. >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, >> > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: >> >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> >>> >>> entry but >> >> not the xref field? >>> >>> Charles Greathouse >>> Analyst/Programmer >>> Case Western Reserve University >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >>> >>> wrote: >> >> >>> > Just to clarify one point: >>> > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >>> > cross-references section. >>> > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >>> >>> every >> >> > line) >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Neil >>> > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >>> >>> Piscataway, NJ. >> >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >>> wrote: >> >> > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >>> >>> but not >> >> in >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe >>> >> below. > >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >>> >>> with >> >> all >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >>> >>> any >> >> > foreign >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >________________________________ >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >>> R. H. >> >> > > Hardin >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >Ron, >>> > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >>> >>> should >> >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >>> >>> links >> >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >>> >>> with only >> >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >>> >>> often >> >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it >>> >> is > >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >>> >>> sequence >> >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >>> > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >>> >>> A250676 and >> >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >>> >>> up >> >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >>> > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >>> >>> have >> >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >>> >>> they are >> >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >>> >>> a true >> >> > > >added value, I think. >>> > > > >>> > > >Maximilian >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >>> wrote: >> >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >>> >>> link >> >> in >>> > > the table will find them. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >>> without a >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >>> >>> that. >> >> > > >> >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >>> >>> this, in >> >> > > this family. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >>>________________________________ >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >>> R. H. >> >> > > Hardin >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >>> >>> similar >> >> > > manner. >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>Maximilian >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ >>> > > >> >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >>> > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 23:05:57 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:05:57 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> It's easy to add the %Y lines (done!) to the generating programs but it changes how you look at the line if it's an index of mentions above rather than something you might want to look at as decided by a human. Either way is okay. It just changes the use. The count-against is that you lose the human editor, and so may skip them all because so many are useless. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: Neil Sloane >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 3:35 PM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to >cross-references. > >If you are using the OEIS for >what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help >you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come >up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > >A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it >will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > >And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, >so it is easy to find them. > > > >Best regards >Neil > >Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters >wrote: > >> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Neil Sloane >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >> >> >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance >> what sequences are mentioned. >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: >> >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >>> >> entry but >> >>> not the xref field? >>> >>> Charles Greathouse >>> Analyst/Programmer >>> Case Western Reserve University >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> > Just to clarify one point: >>> > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >>> > cross-references section. >>> > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >>> >> every >> >>> > line) >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Neil >>> > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >>> >> Piscataway, NJ. >> >>> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >>> >> but not >> >>> in >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >>> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >>> >> with >> >>> all >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >>> >> any >> >>> > foreign >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >________________________________ >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >> R. H. >> >>> > > Hardin >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >Ron, >>> > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >>> >> should >> >>> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >>> >> links >> >>> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >>> >> with only >> >>> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >>> >> often >> >>> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >>> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >>> >> sequence >> >>> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >>> > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >>> >> A250676 and >> >>> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >>> >> up >> >>> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >>> > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >>> >> have >> >>> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >>> >> they are >> >>> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >>> >> a true >> >>> > > >added value, I think. >>> > > > >>> > > >Maximilian >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >> wrote: >> >>> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >>> >> link >> >>> in >>> > > the table will find them. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >>> without a >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >>> >> that. >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >>> >> this, in >> >>> > > this family. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >>>________________________________ >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >> R. H. >> >>> > > Hardin >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >>> >> similar >> >>> > > manner. >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>Maximilian >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ >>> > > >> >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >>> > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 23:55:25 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:55:25 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Good point, about discouraging human readers. How about something like this? The machine-generated cross-references could say: Cf. (generated automatically): A234111, A234112, ... Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Ron Hardin wrote: > It's easy to add the %Y lines (done!) to the generating programs but it > changes how you look at the line if it's an index of mentions above rather > than something you might want to look at as decided by a human. Either way > is okay. It just changes the use. > > The count-against is that you lose the human editor, and so may skip them > all because so many are useless. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >________________________________ > > From: Neil Sloane > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 3:35 PM > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > > > > > >I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to > >cross-references. > > > >If you are using the OEIS for > >what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help > >you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come > >up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > > > >A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it > >will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > > > >And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, > >so it is easy to find them. > > > > > > > >Best regards > >Neil > > > >Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > >Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > >wrote: > > > >> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Neil Sloane > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > >> > >> > >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a > glance > >> what sequences are mentioned. > >> > >> Best regards > >> Neil > >> > >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > >> > >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an > >>> > >> entry but > >> > >>> not the xref field? > >>> > >>> Charles Greathouse > >>> Analyst/Programmer > >>> Case Western Reserve University > >>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > Just to clarify one point: > >>> > > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > >>> > cross-references section. > >>> > > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through > >>> > >> every > >> > >>> > line) > >>> > > >>> > Best regards > >>> > Neil > >>> > > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, > >>> > >> Piscataway, NJ. > >> > >>> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, > >>> > >> but not > >> > >>> in > >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > >>> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page > >>> > >> with > >> > >>> all > >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as > >>> > >> any > >> > >>> > foreign > >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >________________________________ > >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler > >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of > >>> > >> R. H. > >> > >>> > > Hardin > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Ron, > >>> > > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula > >>> > >> should > >> > >>> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the > >>> > >> links > >> > >>> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search > >>> > >> with only > >> > >>> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but > >>> > >> often > >> > >>> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > >>> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the > >>> > >> sequence > >> > >>> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables > >>> > >> A250676 and > >> > >>> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop > >>> > >> up > >> > >>> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > >>> > > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to > >>> > >> have > >> > >>> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why > >>> > >> they are > >> > >>> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is > >>> > >> a true > >> > >>> > > >added value, I think. > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Maximilian > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs > >>> > >> link > >> > >>> in > >>> > > the table will find them. > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > >>> without a > >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond > >>> > >> that. > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like > >>> > >> this, in > >> > >>> > > this family. > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >>>________________________________ > >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of > >>> > >> R. H. > >> > >>> > > Hardin > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a > >>> > >> similar > >> > >>> > > manner. > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>>Maximilian > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> > >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From michel.marcus at free.fr Wed Feb 11 21:15:17 2015 From: michel.marcus at free.fr (michel.marcus at free.fr) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:15:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1588911053.534795074.1423685610707.JavaMail.root@spooler7-g27.priv.proxad.net> Message-ID: <115735703.534802904.1423685717411.JavaMail.root@spooler7-g27.priv.proxad.net> I guess that's why the "refs" link in A000217 is: A000217 -id:A000217 . Michel Marcus From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Mon Feb 9 07:43:48 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:43:48 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Generalized Amicable Number Message-ID: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Seqfans I genaralized Amicable Number as follows (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 I computed it by hand x = 5^2*11*29*2^2*3^2 y = 5^2*11*29*7^2 x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 Could anyon confirm them and compute more term? Yasutoshi From jfb at brennen.net Thu Feb 12 18:05:53 2015 From: jfb at brennen.net (Jack Brennen) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:05:53 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Generalized Amicable Number In-Reply-To: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> References: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Message-ID: <54DCDD71.6050003@brennen.net> For your first pair, it seems that they satisfy the equation: (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=4/3*(x*y)^(1/2) I can confirm that the other two you provided are correct. Is it possible that the ratio of 8/5 doesn't need to be fixed, but instead of the form 2-2/p ? Given the significance of the "-2" in the computation of (-1)Sigma(x), I could imagine how that might make sense. Pairs that I found that satisfy the equation at the given 8/5 ratio include: x = y = 2^3*3^3*5*13*19 x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 {Your 3rd pair} x = y = 2^4*3^3*5*7*19*29 x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 {Your 2nd pair} x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^3*7*11*19 x = y = 2^6*3*5^5*61 x = y = 2^3*3^2*5^2*7*11*13*29 On 2/8/2015 10:43 PM, zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp wrote: > Hi,Seqfans > I genaralized Amicable Number as follows > > (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) > > The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 > > I computed it by hand > > x = 5^2*11*29*2^2*3^2 > y = 5^2*11*29*7^2 > > x = y > = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 > > x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 > y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 > > Could anyon confirm them and compute > more term? > > > > Yasutoshi > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 01:59:34 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:59:34 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A133579 Message-ID: I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey From franktaw at netscape.net Sat Feb 14 02:33:18 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:33:18 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides a(n-1). A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Harvey P. Dale To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm Subject: [seqfan] A133579 I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 03:13:06 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:13:06 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and added some example lines to clarify the situation. The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition of A133579 should be: a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I will fix that. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides a(n-1). > > A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for > A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harvey P. Dale > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > > > I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > sequence from its > definition. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 03:21:53 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:21:53 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and added > some example lines to clarify the situation. > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct it?), > and probably the programs also need correcting. > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct > definition of A133579 should be: > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at > a(6), I believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it > needs to be recomputed. (a(6) should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, > it should be 0, and I will fix that. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides >> a(n-1). >> >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harvey P. Dale >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above >> sequence from its >> definition. >> Best, >> Harvey >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 17:33:23 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:33:23 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect the changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's revised definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. Best, Harvey -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil Sloane Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and > added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > of A133579 should be: > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > will fix that. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides >> a(n-1). >> >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset >> for >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harvey P. Dale >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above >> sequence from its definition. >> Best, >> Harvey >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 17:40:31 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:40:31 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A133058 Message-ID: I provided a Mma program and a b-file for the above sequence. Best, Harvey From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 18:33:11 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:33:11 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Harvey, Thanks for your work on A133580 and A133058. As for A133579, I corrected the terms and added a companion sequence A253092. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay > even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect the > changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. > I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's revised > definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. > Best, > Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil > Sloane > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 > > A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and > > added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > > of A133579 should be: > > > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > > will fix that. > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > > > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides > >> a(n-1). > >> > >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset > >> for > >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Harvey P. Dale > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > >> > >> > >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > >> sequence from its definition. > >> Best, > >> Harvey > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 19:26:30 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:26:30 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Neil: I added a Mma program for each of A133579 and A253092 and a b-file for the former. Best, Harvey -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil Sloane Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 12:33 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 Harvey, Thanks for your work on A133580 and A133058. As for A133579, I corrected the terms and added a companion sequence A253092. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay > even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect > the changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. > I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's > revised definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. > Best, > Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil > Sloane > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 > > A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset > > and added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > > of A133579 should be: > > > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > > will fix that. > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > > > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides > >> a(n-1). > >> > >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the > >> offset for > >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Harvey P. Dale > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > >> > >> > >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > >> sequence from its definition. > >> Best, > >> Harvey > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From arndt at jjj.de Sat Feb 14 20:00:11 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:00:11 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20150214190011.GA25417@jjj.de> [I was biting my tongue up to here] * Neil Sloane [Feb 12. 2015 08:19]: > Good point, about discouraging human readers. > > How about something like this? The machine-generated > cross-references could say: > > Cf. (generated automatically): A234111, A234112, ... Yes! There will be some draw backs, e.g., when people do the A-number dance in the formula section, e.g., writing A000040(n) for prime(n) or (much worse) A000027(n) for n. And pretty please un-enforce the manual adding of all crossrefs. Best, jj > > Best regards > Neil > > [...] From acwacw at gmail.com Sun Feb 15 00:51:34 2015 From: acwacw at gmail.com (Allan Wechsler) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:51:34 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple regime at n=638. a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, for all k>=0. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I provided a Mma program and a b-file for the above sequence. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From oeis at hasler.fr Sun Feb 15 15:04:28 2015 From: oeis at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:04:28 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple > regime at n=638. > a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, for > all k>=0. I agree with Allan's result (and added PARI code producing the same sequence). If one defines a(1)=1; a(n+1) = a(n) + n + 1 if a(n) and n are coprime, otherwise a(n+1) = a(n)/gcd(a(n),n). one gets a "trivial" sequence having this behaviour right from the start : 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 7, 14, 2, 1, 11, 22, 2, 1, 15, 30, 2, 1, 19,... i.e., a(4n+1) = 1, a(4n+2) = 4n+3, a(4n+3) = 8n+6, a(4n) = 2. which I submitted in spite of "kw: easy, dumb" as A255051 ; Changing the +1 to +2 yields yet another (less trivial) variant, 1, 4, 2, 7, 13, 20, 10, 19, 29, 40, 4, 17, 31, 46, 23, 40, 5, ... submitted as A255140. -- Maximilian From acwacw at gmail.com Sun Feb 15 15:30:38 2015 From: acwacw at gmail.com (Allan Wechsler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:30:38 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A comment by the author (Zizka) seems to recognize the possibility of these period-4 regimes. This leads me to think that one might devise a meta-sequence telling how soon the regime is entered depending on starting values. On Feb 15, 2015 9:05 AM, "M. F. Hasler" wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > > If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple > > regime at n=638. > > a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, > for > > all k>=0. > > I agree with Allan's result (and added PARI code producing the same > sequence). > If one defines > a(1)=1; a(n+1) = a(n) + n + 1 if a(n) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n+1) = a(n)/gcd(a(n),n). > > one gets a "trivial" sequence having this behaviour right from the start : > 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 7, 14, 2, 1, 11, 22, 2, 1, 15, 30, 2, 1, 19,... > i.e., a(4n+1) = 1, a(4n+2) = 4n+3, a(4n+3) = 8n+6, a(4n) = 2. > > which I submitted in spite of "kw: easy, dumb" as A255051 ; > Changing the +1 to +2 yields yet another (less trivial) variant, > 1, 4, 2, 7, 13, 20, 10, 19, 29, 40, 4, 17, 31, 46, 23, 40, 5, ... > submitted as A255140. > -- > Maximilian > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From oeis at hasler.fr Sun Feb 15 16:58:43 2015 From: oeis at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:58:43 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > A comment by the author (Zizka) seems to recognize the possibility of these > period-4 regimes. This leads me to think that one might devise a > meta-sequence telling how soon the regime is entered depending on starting > values. Maybe, but note that A255140 enters a different loop, of form (1,x,2x,x) and not (1,x,2x,2). So actually we would have (at least) these 3 variants (**) (with ...+n vs. +n+1 and offset/indexing a[n-1] vs a[n]) and for each of these a meta sequence, function of the respective a[1]. (**) The a(n+1) = a(n)*2+1 resp. a(n)*3 variants do not have this looping property, but each has its own self-similarity property, which is for the latter also explained by the simple recurrence formula I added for A253092 = log3 A133579. -- Maximilian From rhhardin at att.net Mon Feb 16 17:22:52 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:22:52 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Guess the formula T(n,k)=? Message-ID: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> This is likely to be T(n,k)=f(n)+f(k) with f() having a 2^() flavor. Every row, column and the diagonal satisfy the same recurrence. The solutions seem to pick every 3rd row or column for 1's and sometimes add cross rows or columns of 1's. /tmp/eyg T(n,k)=Number of (n+2)X(k+2) 0..1 arrays with no 3x3 subblock diagonal sum 0 and no antidiagonal sum 0 and no row sum 2 and no column sum 2 Table starts ..23..22..31..43..61..88.127.184.268.391.571..835.1222.1789.2620.3838.5623.8239 ..22..28..37..49..67..94.133.190.274.397.577..841.1228.1795.2626.3844.5629.8245 ..31..37..46..58..76.103.142.199.283.406.586..850.1237.1804.2635.3853.5638.8254 ..43..49..58..70..88.115.154.211.295.418.598..862.1249.1816.2647.3865.5650.8266 ..61..67..76..88.106.133.172.229.313.436.616..880.1267.1834.2665.3883.5668.8284 ..88..94.103.115.133.160.199.256.340.463.643..907.1294.1861.2692.3910.5695.8311 .127.133.142.154.172.199.238.295.379.502.682..946.1333.1900.2731.3949.5734.8350 .184.190.199.211.229.256.295.352.436.559.739.1003.1390.1957.2788.4006.5791.8407 .268.274.283.295.313.340.379.436.520.643.823.1087.1474.2041.2872.4090.5875.8491 .391.397.406.418.436.463.502.559.643.766.946.1210.1597.2164.2995.4213.5998.8614 Empirical for diagonal: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 Empirical for column k: k=1: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 k=2: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=3: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=4: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=5: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=6: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=7: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) Two solutions for n=8 k=8 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) From susanne.wienand at gmail.com Tue Feb 17 23:05:43 2015 From: susanne.wienand at gmail.com (Susanne Wienand) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:05:43 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Guess the formula T(n,k)=? In-Reply-To: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello Ron, The terms seem to be related to A000930, Narayana's cow sequence. If decreased by 22 and then divided by 3, the terms become .1/3....0....3....7....13....22..35..54..82..123..183..271..400..589..866..1272..1867..2739 ..0.....2....5....9....15....24..37..56..84..125..185..273..402..591..868..1274..1869..2741 ..3.....5....8...12....18....27..40..59..87..128..188..276..405..594..871..1277..1872..2744 ..7.....9...12...16....22....31..44..63..91..132..192..280..409..598..875..1281..1876..2748 .13....15...18...22....28....37..50..69..97..138..198..286..415..604..881..1287..1882..2754 .22....24...27...31....37....46..59..78.106..147..207..295..424..613..890..1296..1891..2763 .35....37...40...44....50....59..72..91.119..160..220..308..437..626..903..1309..1904..2776 .54....56...59...63....69....78..91.110.138..179..239..327..456..645..922..1328..1923..2795 .82....84...87...91....97...106.119.138.166..207..267..355..484..673..950..1356..1951..2823 123...125..128..132...138...147.160.179.207..248..308..396..525..714..991..1397..1992..2864 Most differences (except upper left corner) along the columns and the rows seem to match with A000930: *2*, *3*, *4*, *6*, *9*, *13*, *19*, *28*, 41, 60, 88, 129, 189, 277, 406, 595, 872, 1278 T(2,2) - T(2,1) = 2 - 0 = 2 T(2,3) - T(2,2) = 5 - 2 = 3 T(2,4) - T(2,3) = 9 - 5 = 4 ... I hope this can help to find the formula. Regards Susanne 2015-02-16 17:22 GMT+01:00 Ron Hardin : > This is likely to be T(n,k)=f(n)+f(k) with f() having a 2^() flavor. > > > Every row, column and the diagonal satisfy the same recurrence. > > The solutions seem to pick every 3rd row or column for 1's and sometimes > add cross rows or columns of 1's. > > > /tmp/eyg > T(n,k)=Number of (n+2)X(k+2) 0..1 arrays with no 3x3 subblock diagonal sum > 0 and no antidiagonal sum 0 and no row sum 2 and no column sum 2 > > Table starts > > ..23..22..31..43..61..88.127.184.268.391.571..835.1222.1789.2620.3838.5623.8239 > > ..22..28..37..49..67..94.133.190.274.397.577..841.1228.1795.2626.3844.5629.8245 > > ..31..37..46..58..76.103.142.199.283.406.586..850.1237.1804.2635.3853.5638.8254 > > ..43..49..58..70..88.115.154.211.295.418.598..862.1249.1816.2647.3865.5650.8266 > > ..61..67..76..88.106.133.172.229.313.436.616..880.1267.1834.2665.3883.5668.8284 > > ..88..94.103.115.133.160.199.256.340.463.643..907.1294.1861.2692.3910.5695.8311 > > .127.133.142.154.172.199.238.295.379.502.682..946.1333.1900.2731.3949.5734.8350 > > .184.190.199.211.229.256.295.352.436.559.739.1003.1390.1957.2788.4006.5791.8407 > > .268.274.283.295.313.340.379.436.520.643.823.1087.1474.2041.2872.4090.5875.8491 > > .391.397.406.418.436.463.502.559.643.766.946.1210.1597.2164.2995.4213.5998.8614 > > Empirical for diagonal: > a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 > Empirical for column k: > k=1: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 > k=2: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=3: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=4: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=5: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=6: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=7: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > > Two solutions for n=8 k=8 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From 2stepan at rambler.ru Thu Feb 19 15:55:11 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:55:11 +0300 Subject: [seqfan] 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans, Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... What in the next one? Thanks. JSG From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 16:56:24 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:56:24 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: Youri, If you restrict to x, y, 0 or positive integers, your list is certainly 2 plus Mersenne primes, anyway the next one should be 127. If you allow x, y any integer, you will probably find that only 2 cannot be represented this way. Olivier On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, ???? ????????? <2stepan at rambler.ru> wrote: > > Dear SeqFans, > Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... > > What in the next one? > > Thanks. JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Thu Feb 19 17:04:45 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:04:45 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <37A5F4897FEB4645829AF7CB37B94C93@OwnerPC> Hello, 127. The sequence will be 2 and the Mersenne primes. The equation is 2x(2y+3)-1, which is all the even numbers times all the odd numbers minus 1. These are all the odd numbers except 2^n-1 which, when prime, are the Mersennes. Best, Bob Selcoe -------------------------------------------------- From: "???? ?????????" <2stepan at rambler.ru> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:55 AM To: Subject: [seqfan] 4xy + 6x - 1 > > Dear SeqFans, > Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... > > What in the next one? > > Thanks. JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 10:53:42 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Is there any problems with this proof? Message-ID: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at it and tell me if it true? http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed.? Related: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 ?John W. Nicholson From felix.froe at googlemail.com Fri Feb 20 11:10:10 2015 From: felix.froe at googlemail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Felix_Fr=C3=B6hlich?=) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:10:10 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS Message-ID: Dear SeqFans, as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in the OEIS Wiki. See https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the corresponding talk pages. Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 or A000043. As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which keywords would be useful. What do others think? Best regards Felix Fr?hlich From maximilian.hasler at gmail.com Fri Feb 20 12:19:51 2015 From: maximilian.hasler at gmail.com (Maximilian F. Hasler) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:19:51 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm quite in favor of this, and more. I developed some thoughts on https://oeis.org/wiki/User:M._F._Hasler/Work_in_progress/Improvements_of_OEIS I think switching to freely definable categories could be an interesting alternative/complement to (or way of maintaining) the currently existing index. Maximilian Le 20 f?vr. 2015 06:11, "Felix Fr?hlich" a ?crit : > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Fri Feb 20 19:18:04 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:18:04 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords available can't be very difficult. Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere close to being right. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Felix Fr?hlich To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS Dear SeqFans, as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in the OEIS Wiki. See https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the corresponding talk pages. Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 or A000043. As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which keywords would be useful. What do others think? Best regards Felix Fr?hlich _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Fri Feb 20 18:24:10 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:24:10 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > available can't be very difficult. > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > close to being right. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Fr?hlich > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Fri Feb 20 19:36:26 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:36:26 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D21B4AE31E7FE1-23D4-8FBC5@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> I suggested some time ago linking keywords and the index. One would enter a "keyword" for the sequence, and this would automatically create an index entry for it. The keywords on search screens could then be live links to the index entries. (One would have to manually create the index entry itself and define its associated keyword.) Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 12:25 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > available can't be very difficult. > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > close to being right. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Fr?hlich > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From r.rosenthal at web.de Fri Feb 20 20:30:19 2015 From: r.rosenthal at web.de (Rainer Rosenthal) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:30:19 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> Am 20.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Neil Sloane: > ... Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? What has the game of Go to do with this? I love Go, so I am very interested. Cheers, Rainer From jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr Fri Feb 20 20:37:12 2015 From: jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr (jean-paul allouche) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:37:12 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> Message-ID: <54E78CE8.2080909@imj-prg.fr> Hi Go is a programming language, see, e.g., https://golang.org best jean-paul Le 20/02/15 20:30, Rainer Rosenthal a ?crit : > Am 20.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Neil Sloane: >> ... Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > What has the game of Go to do with this? > I love Go, so I am very interested. > > Cheers, > Rainer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From charles.greathouse at case.edu Fri Feb 20 20:47:49 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:47:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily > rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding > "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > > available can't be very difficult. > > > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might > think > > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes > quite > > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences > depend > > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > > close to being right. > > > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Felix Fr?hlich > > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > > > > Dear SeqFans, > > > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found > regarding > > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > > the OEIS Wiki. See > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and > the > > corresponding talk pages. > > > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The > addition > > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword > 'prim' > > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > > or A000043. > > > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS > database, I > > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding > which > > keywords would be useful. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best regards > > > > Felix Fr?hlich > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Fri Feb 20 23:24:17 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:24:17 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the heuristic? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at it > and tell me if it true? > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > Related: > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > John W. Nicholson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 21 01:58:06 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Charles, Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1??John W. Nicholson On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse wrote: I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the heuristic? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at it > and tell me if it true? > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > Related: > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > >? John W. Nicholson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From seqfan at matcos.nl Fri Feb 20 21:59:05 2015 From: seqfan at matcos.nl (Matthijs Coster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:59:05 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <54E7A019.2050006@matcos.nl> I would like keywords such that only sequences can be searched which are increasing, non decreasing, consist of different integers. That would be wonderful! Matthijs Coster Charles Greathouse schreef op 20-2-2015 om 20:47: > I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. > Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would > be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though > this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > >> Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily >> rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding >> "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < >> franktaw at netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >>> While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords >>> available can't be very difficult. >>> >>> Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it >>> belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might >> think >>> to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be >>> automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are >>> probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes >> quite >>> late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very >>> large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences >>> which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences >> depend >>> on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere >>> close to being right. >>> >>> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Felix Fr?hlich >>> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am >>> Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS >>> >>> >>> Dear SeqFans, >>> >>> as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the >>> addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found >> regarding >>> that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in >>> the OEIS Wiki. See >>> https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and >>> https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and >> the >>> corresponding talk pages. >>> >>> Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific >>> keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The >> addition >>> of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For >>> example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword >> 'prim' >>> that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two >>> obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 >>> or A000043. >>> >>> As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS >> database, I >>> would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the >>> OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like >>> running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires >>> some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I >>> do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who >>> maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be >>> desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding >> which >>> keywords would be useful. >>> >>> What do others think? >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Felix Fr?hlich >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Sat Feb 21 08:33:05 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:33:05 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> I don't know what you mean by categories. Is there a reference to this in the Wiki? Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Charles Greathouse To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 1:48 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily > rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding > "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > > available can't be very difficult. > > > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might > think > > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes > quite > > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences > depend > > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > > close to being right. > > > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Felix Fr?hlich > > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > > > > Dear SeqFans, > > > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found > regarding > > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > > the OEIS Wiki. See > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and > the > > corresponding talk pages. > > > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The > addition > > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword > 'prim' > > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > > or A000043. > > > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS > database, I > > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding > which > > keywords would be useful. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best regards > > > > Felix Fr?hlich > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From felix.froe at googlemail.com Sat Feb 21 09:08:53 2015 From: felix.froe at googlemail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Felix_Fr=C3=B6hlich?=) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:08:53 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I don't think there is a reference in the OEIS wiki, but for a general overview of what I believe Neil is referring to above, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories. Felix 2015-02-21 8:33 GMT+01:00 Frank Adams-Watters : > I don't know what you mean by categories. Is there a reference to this in > the Wiki? > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Greathouse > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 1:48 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS > > > I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. > Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would > be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though > this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily >> rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding >> "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be >> > implemented? > >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, >> > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < >> franktaw at netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >> > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords >> > available can't be very difficult. >> > >> > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where >> > it > >> > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you >> > might > >> think >> > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process >> > could be > >> > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but >> > there are > >> > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member >> > comes > >> quite >> > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having >> > very > >> > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those >> > sequences > >> > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences >> depend >> > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get >> > anywhere > >> > close to being right. >> > >> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Felix Fr?hlich >> > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am >> > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS >> > >> > >> > Dear SeqFans, >> > >> > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the >> > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found >> regarding >> > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles >> > Greathouse in > >> > the OEIS Wiki. See >> > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and >> > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table >> > and > >> the >> > corresponding talk pages. >> > >> > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via >> > specific > >> > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The >> addition >> > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. >> > For > >> > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword >> 'prim' >> > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are >> > prime. Two > >> > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 >> > or A000043. >> > >> > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS >> database, I >> > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to >> > the > >> > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just >> > like > >> > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it >> > requires > >> > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the >> > OEIS, I > >> > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those >> > who > >> > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step >> > would be > >> > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions >> > regarding > >> which >> > keywords would be useful. >> > >> > What do others think? >> > >> > Best regards >> > >> > Felix Fr?hlich >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Sat Feb 21 08:19:14 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:19:14 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Generalized Amicable Number Message-ID: <62970.111.188.22.63.1424503154.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Jack Thank you for confirming and computing more terms The first number was the following x = 5^3*11^2*13*131*2^2*3^2 y = 5^3*11^2*13*131*7^2 I am sorry that I wrote a wrong number which I wrote on next line in my note book Could you confirm it? I am now computing the numbers which satisfy the following F(x)=F(y)=m/n*(x*y)^(1/2) Where F(k) is one of the divisor function, both m,n are small Here is an interesting example UnitaryPhi(x)=UnitaryPhi(y)=m/n*(x*y)^(1/2) m/n=3/4 A143649 x = 2^10*5*3^2*11^2 y = 2^10*5*31^2 Is it tenth term? m/n=4/5 x = y = 5 x = 2^2*3^2 y = 5^2 x = 5^4*7*2^10*3^8*11^2*41^2 y = 5^4*7*2^20*3^2*13^2*31^2 Could you confirm them and compute more terms? >(-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) >The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 Yasutoshi From charles.greathouse at case.edu Sat Feb 21 16:42:35 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:42:35 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Charles, > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. Nicholson > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the > heuristic? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at > it > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > Related: > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > John W. Nicholson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 21 19:05:18 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1727707214.931670.1424541918410.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> "It's numerically unassailable"? Please, do explain, because I do not see how it is a problem when I used Ramanujan primes, the RPC, and subsutution to limit the size of the gaps. I don't see how this is different for a large maximal gap too. ?John W. Nicholson On Saturday, February 21, 2015 9:43 AM, Charles Greathouse wrote: I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Charles, > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. Nicholson > >? ? ? On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > >? I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the > heuristic? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at > it > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > Related: > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > >? John W. Nicholson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Sat Feb 21 08:28:54 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:28:54 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Song of Integer Message-ID: <62987.111.188.22.63.1424503734.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Seqfans Do you know "BABYMETAL" who is a girl matal band? Their album got top of World Albums in Billboard of USA "Megitsune" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw They also sing a song of "Integer" "4 No Uta" which means "Song of four" Live in London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYaUGOTo3I Lylic of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASyqaP6dguA Two younger members of them wrote it when they were twelve years old I think they are so smart Yasutoshi From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 00:51:07 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:51:07 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Fwd : House of Graphs: a database of interesting graphs -- an update Message-ID: This might be of interest to several seqfan members. With my best regards, Olivier G?rard ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Goedgebeur Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:46 PM Already in 2012 we announced the website "House of Graphs" -- http://hog.grinvin.org/ . In the meantime several new lists of graphs, "interesting graphs", and invariants have been added to the website. "House of Graphs" hosts lists of graphs (like Snarks, Fullerenes, etc.) and links to other pages with lists of combinatorial structures (like vertex transitive graphs, Ramsey graphs, etc.). But its main feature is a searchable database of graphs that already occurred as counterexamples to conjectures, as extremal graphs or in other contexts. In short we call this the database of "interesting graphs". The key idea is that although already for small vertex numbers extremely many graphs exist, there are some that serve again and again as counterexamples and that a database of these graphs should be established. In this database one can e.g. search for graphs with certain invariant values, graphs with a certain name (e.g. Petersen, Heawood, Balaban, etc.) or graphs that are marked as being interesting for a certain invariant (e.g. marked as being interesting for the girth). These searches can of course also be combined and the results downloaded so that one gets good candidates for testing new conjectures one is working on. Users can also add graphs to the database. If the graphs are not yet in the database, the system computes invariant values for the graphs. So the database can also be used as a repository. If you discover new interesting graphs, you can make them available to other users by submitting them to the database together with a text identifier (e.g. counterexample_this_conjecture). Then other scientists can find and download the graph from "House of Graphs". More information on "House of Graphs" and its functionalities is given in: Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 161, Issues 1-2, Jan. 2013, pages 311-314 Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.07.018 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3549 while "House of Graphs" can be accessed at: http://hog.grinvin.org/ Gunnar Brinkmann, Kris Coolsaet, Jan Goedgebeur and Hadrien Melot -- Jan Goedgebeur Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Krijgslaan 281 - S9 B - 9000 Ghent From pew at worldwidemann.com Sun Feb 22 22:29:17 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:29:17 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Message-ID: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> I have been experimenting with a purely algorithmic (brute force) approach to the question "which formula generates this number sequence?", designed to complement existing systems based on database lookups (OEIS) and pattern transforms (Mathematica). The system developed for that purpose is now available, both as a library/executable JAR (https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer) and as a simple (beta stage) web service (http://www.sequenceboss.org/). At its core, Sequencer is a tree-based expression generator plus a hybrid search engine combining a fast numerical pre-checker with a symbolic verifier. Because the numerical checker is so fast, expressions of relatively high complexity (7-8 nodes) can be exhaustively searched in minutes on commodity hardware to check whether they generate the given numbers. Despite its early stage of development, Sequencer can already identify (i.e. find a closed form expression for) many sequences that OEIS, Superseeker and Mathematica can not. It is particularly strong at finding complex, nonlinear or inhomogeneous recurrence relations like a(1) = 1 a(2) = 1 a(3) = 1 a(n) = a(n-2)^2+a(n-1)+a(n-3) for n >= 4 when provided the sequence 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 15, 43, 273 something which none of the above mentioned systems is currently able to do. But the system can also quickly find unusual, relatively simple general terms for sequences like 11, 47, 123, 214, 257 for which Sequencer returns a(n) = n + Binomial(10,n) in less than one second (http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C+47%2C+123% 2C+214%2C+257). By leveraging the Symja computer algebra system, Sequencer supports fully symbolic input and output and is not limited to integer sequences. For example, running the program on the input 0, 1/2, sqrt(3)/2, 1 produces (search depth 6) the formula a(n) = Sin(1/6*Pi*(n-1)) I invite you to give the Sequencer/SequenceBoss system a try. If you are familiar with Scala, you will find it easy to modify the FormulaGenerator class to expand the range of expressions that can be searched beyond what the command line switches already offer. Next in line I plan to add multicore support based on Scala Actors which should almost multiply the current search performance by the number of available CPU cores as the search is efficiently parallelizable. Bug reports and code contributions are very welcome, ideally on GitHub. Best regards Philipp Emanuel Weidmann From akourbatov at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 23:04:10 2015 From: akourbatov at gmail.com (Alexei Kourbatov) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:04:10 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: In Cramer's model, I feel that both statements are true with probability 1. In the original proof, the last sentence "So the gap g_y ..." apparently does not follow from the preceding statements (as far as I can tell). To illustrate my point: a-c < 2(b-d) does not follow from { a < 2b and c < 2d} - but it would follow e.g. from { a < 2b and c >= 2d} On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically > unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, > you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and > even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is > checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. > > It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It > also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Charles, > > > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. > Nicholson > > > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on > the > > heuristic? > > > > Charles Greathouse > > Analyst/Programmer > > Case Western Reserve University > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson < > reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at > > it > > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > > > Related: > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > John W. Nicholson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Mon Feb 23 11:42:45 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:42:45 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: Dear Philipp Emmanuel, your program Sequencer is really interesting. In spirit, one can say it is close to Robert Munafo's RIES http://mrob.com/pub/ries/index.html but for integer sequences It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without formula. I have a first candidate (which is inspired by the same kind of brute force exploration) https://oeis.org/A229673 "The number of subsets of nonzero integers of cardinality n, produced as the steps in a computation starting with 1 and using the operations of multiplication, addition, or subtraction." 1, 3, 15, 126, 1667, 31966, 828678, 27535826, 1128945382, ... Best regards, Olivier On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > I have been experimenting with a purely algorithmic (brute force) > approach to the question "which formula generates this number > sequence?", designed to complement existing systems based on database > lookups (OEIS) and pattern transforms (Mathematica). > > Mathematica has pattern transforms as part of its language but its sequence formula recognition commands are based on mathematical theories : - holonomic functions, linear algebra, z-transforms, difference equations, continuous fractions, pade approximants, ... > The system developed for that purpose is now available, both as a > library/executable JAR (https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer) and as a > simple (beta stage) web service (http://www.sequenceboss.org/). > > At its core, Sequencer is a tree-based expression generator plus a > hybrid search engine combining a fast numerical pre-checker with a > symbolic verifier. Because the numerical checker is so fast, expressions > of relatively high complexity (7-8 nodes) can be exhaustively searched > in minutes on commodity hardware to check whether they generate the > given numbers. > > Despite its early stage of development, Sequencer can already identify > (i.e. find a closed form expression for) many sequences that OEIS, > Superseeker and Mathematica can not. It is particularly strong at > finding complex, nonlinear or inhomogeneous recurrence relations like > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(3) = 1 > a(n) = a(n-2)^2+a(n-1)+a(n-3) for n >= 4 > > when provided the sequence > > 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 15, 43, 273 > > something which none of the above mentioned systems is currently able to > do. But the system can also quickly find unusual, relatively simple > general terms for sequences like > > 11, 47, 123, 214, 257 > > for which Sequencer returns > > a(n) = n + Binomial(10,n) > > in less than one second (http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C+47%2C+123% > 2C+214%2C+257). > > By leveraging the Symja computer algebra system, Sequencer supports > fully symbolic input and output and is not limited to integer sequences. > For example, running the program on the input > > 0, 1/2, sqrt(3)/2, 1 > > produces (search depth 6) the formula > > a(n) = Sin(1/6*Pi*(n-1)) > > > I invite you to give the Sequencer/SequenceBoss system a try. If you are > familiar with Scala, you will find it easy to modify the > FormulaGenerator class to expand the range of expressions that can be > searched beyond what the command line switches already offer. Next in > line I plan to add multicore support based on Scala Actors which should > almost multiply the current search performance by the number of > available CPU cores as the search is efficiently parallelizable. Bug > reports and code contributions are very welcome, ideally on GitHub. > > Best regards > > Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > From wclark at mail.usf.edu Mon Feb 23 17:02:37 2015 From: wclark at mail.usf.edu (W. Edwin Clark) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:02:37 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard wrote: > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without > formula. > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n :-) Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian groups of order n. From mlb at well.com Mon Feb 23 22:02:26 2015 From: mlb at well.com (Marc LeBrun) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:02:26 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its mathematical content. Features such as ad hoc keywords or categories are innocuous insofar as they go, and useful within their scope, but they seem pretty primitive compared to the current state-of-the-art in data modeling and knowledge engineering. I recommend that anyone with an interest in these proposals with an eye towards the future of the OEIS should look into things like the semantic web to get a more up-to-date appreciation for where such technologies are going (indeed, have already gone). For example a keyword can be viewed as metadata that makes an assertion *about a sequence*. But instead of having "?" variants of every keyword one can instead have a general kind of "meta" assertion *about an assertion* that says it is conjectural. And so on for many other applications (eg assertions for provenance attribution, processing inferential consequences of keywords such as prim==>nonn, etc etc). The point is that there already exist sophisticated and elegant data languages for representing this kind of information. The OEIS should consider adopting these approaches, rather than reinventing the wheel. But heck, even if we just go ahead and kludge stuff up the good news is that the total amount of actual data in the OEIS is truly miniscule by modern standards. This relative footprint will continue to shrink, at least while the primary source of content continues to be entries hand-crafted by human beings. This means that building and maintaining useful informational superstructures around the OEIS will lie well within the scope of contemporary tools and techniques, and they can flourish off-site if not on. With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and its consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of grad students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS and help us cook up something more au courant? From mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de Mon Feb 23 23:21:39 2015 From: mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de (Richard J. Mathar) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:21:39 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Q on g.f. A138164 Message-ID: <20150223222139.GA13412@mathar.mpia-hd.mpg.de> Is the generating function in http://oeis.org/A138164 correct? The Maple implementation vx := 2/sqrt(3)*sin(sin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) ; A138164 := proc(n) 1/(1-vx-vx^2) ; coeftayl(%,x=0,n) ; end proc: seq(%(n),n=0..13) ; generates fractions from the power(x^3) on. From pauldhanna at juno.com Tue Feb 24 00:41:24 2015 From: pauldhanna at juno.com (Paul D Hanna) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:41:24 GMT Subject: [seqfan] Re: Q on g.f. A138164 Message-ID: <20150223.184124.23772.0@webmail01.dca.untd.com> Richard, Good catch. The formula should read: "G.f.: 1/(1-v-v^2) where v=(2/sqrt(3))*sin(arcsin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) is the series reversion of x*(1-x^2); ..." (i.e., the second 'sin' should be 'arcsin') and a reference to A001764 would be in order since v = Sum_{n>=1} A001764(n-1)*x^(2*n-1). Paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Richard J. Mathar" To: seqfan at seqfan.eu Subject: [seqfan] Q on g.f. A138164 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:21:39 +0100 Is the generating function in http://oeis.org/A138164 correct? The Maple implementation vx := 2/sqrt(3)*sin(sin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) ; A138164 := proc(n) 1/(1-vx-vx^2) ; coeftayl(%,x=0,n) ; end proc: seq(%(n),n=0..13) ; generates fractions from the power(x^3) on. _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From arndt at jjj.de Tue Feb 24 08:56:40 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:56:40 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> * Marc LeBrun [Feb 24. 2015 08:40]: > It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same > level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its > mathematical content. > > [...] > > With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and its > consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of grad > students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS > and help us cook up something more au courant? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ I do agree with all you are saying. There are plans for a "big data" project involving the OEIS, this is related to the Zentralblatt-Math project that will hopefully start soon-ish. A student of mine is just finishing his thesis about parsing formulas in the OEIS for the Zentralblatt. Of course it all depends on the funding. Best regards, jj From njasloane at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 13:37:00 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:37:00 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> References: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> Message-ID: > Of course it all depends on the funding. If this becomes a problem, there is always the possibility that the OEIS Foundation could try to raise some money to help with the project. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Joerg Arndt wrote: > * Marc LeBrun [Feb 24. 2015 08:40]: > > It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same > > level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its > > mathematical content. > > > > [...] > > > > With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and > its > > consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of > grad > > students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS > > and help us cook up something more au courant? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > I do agree with all you are saying. > > There are plans for a "big data" project involving the OEIS, this is > related to the Zentralblatt-Math project that will hopefully start > soon-ish. A student of mine is just finishing his thesis about parsing > formulas in the OEIS for the Zentralblatt. > > Of course it all depends on the funding. > > Best regards, jj > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Mon Feb 23 05:04:01 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 04:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <370292300.7299941.1424664241563.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Alexei Kourbatov, First of all thanks for being clear with your concerns. Second, do remember the note: "All gaps g_i = p_{i+1} ? p_i, where p_i < p_y are g_i <= G_n(x)." Maybe I need to add the following: Under the assumption that the smaller gap is p_{y-b+1} - p_{y-b} = G_n(x), we see that the larger gap is p_{y+1} - p_y <= 2*G_n(x). Is that OK??John W. Nicholson On Sunday, February 22, 2015 5:17 PM, Alexei Kourbatov wrote: In Cramer's model, I feel that both statements are true with probability 1. In the original proof, the last sentence "So the gap g_y ..." apparently does not follow from the preceding statements (as far as I can tell). To illustrate my point: a-c < 2(b-d) does not follow from { a < 2b and c < 2d} - but it would follow e.g. from { a < 2b and c >= 2d} On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically > unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, > you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and > even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is > checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. > > It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It > also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Charles, > > > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. > Nicholson > > > >? ? ? On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > >? I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on > the > > heuristic? > > > > Charles Greathouse > > Analyst/Programmer > > Case Western Reserve University > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson < > reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at > > it > > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > > > Related: > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > > > >? John W. Nicholson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From pew at worldwidemann.com Mon Feb 23 19:21:07 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, "slightly exotic" recurrence relation a(1) = 1 a(2) = 1 a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 ;) In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could then be investigated rigorously. For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting problems of some kind. Best regards Philipp On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard > wrote: > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without > > formula. > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n :-) > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian groups > of order n. > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 14:17:28 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:17:28 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like this would definitely be worth doing. By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no formula or recurrence! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > ;) > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > then be investigated rigorously. > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > problems of some kind. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > without > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > :-) > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > groups > > of order n. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From benoit.jubin at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 17:49:38 2015 From: benoit.jubin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Jubin?=) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:49:38 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 Message-ID: Dear seqfans, Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on an (n,n) chessboard. By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known lower bound from a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 to a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the following description. The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x References: Message-ID: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, I get a maximum of 80, not 84. -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t Jubin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 Dear seqfans, Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on an (n,n) chessboard. By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known lower bound from a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 to a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the following description. The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Message-ID: Dear Rob, I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): ------------------------ ......WWWWWW............ ......WWWWWW...........W ......WWWWWW..........WW ......WWWWWW.........WWW ......WWWWWW........WWWW ......WWWWW........WWWWW .......WWW........WWWWWW ........W.........WWWWWW ..................WWWWWW ..................WWWWW. ..................WWWW.. ..................WWW... ....BB.................. ...BBB.................. ..BBBB.................. .BBBBB.................. BBBBBB..........B....... BBBBBB.........BBB...... BBBBBB........BBBB...... BBBBB........BBBBB...... BBBB........BBBBBB...... BBB.........BBBBBB...... BB..........BBBBBB...... B...........BBBBBB...... ------------------------ On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: > Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, > I get a maximum of 80, not 84. > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t > Jubin > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 > > Dear seqfans, > > Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on > an (n,n) chessboard. > > By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known > lower bound from > a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 > to > a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. > I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say > a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the > coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the > following description. > > The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y > in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in > the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you can > guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the > "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the > "Board 4" example of the webpage). > > Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically > (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. > Anyone to help fill the gap? > > Best, > Benoit > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Tue Feb 24 19:13:22 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:13:22 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Prime by concatenation Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03BD24CA5286@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello Seqfans, Concatenate any two digits of S separated by a comma: the resulting 2-digit number is prime. If we accept that [70,2] produces the prime "2" (concatenation of 0 and 2), then S is a permutation of {the positive integers} - {4,6,8,9}: S = 1,3,7,9,70,2,30,5,31,10,20,21,11,12,32,33,13,14,15,... As usual, S was extended with the smallest integer not yet present in S and not leading to a contradiction. Best, ?. From pew at worldwidemann.com Tue Feb 24 21:37:36 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:37:36 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM library. As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. Best regards Philipp On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > this would definitely be worth doing. > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > formula or recurrence! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > a(1) = 1 > > a(2) = 1 > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > ;) > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > problems of some kind. > > > > Best regards > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > without > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > > :-) > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > groups > > > of order n. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 25 00:17:03 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:17:03 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> If you search in the native format for sequences without "%F" lines, you will find the sequences with no formulas present at all. This still leaves a larger number of sequences for which some formula has been added, but not a formula specifically to define the sequence. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann To: seqfan Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 5:09 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM library. As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. Best regards Philipp On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > this would definitely be worth doing. > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > formula or recurrence! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > a(1) = 1 > > a(2) = 1 > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > ;) > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > problems of some kind. > > > > Best regards > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > without > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > > :-) > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > groups > > > of order n. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From 2stepan at rambler.ru Tue Feb 24 21:41:21 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:41:21 +0300 Subject: [seqfan] magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans. Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that k^n + n is prime: 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, 375, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, 0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... Thanks, JSG From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 00:26:31 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:26:31 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: Dear Youri, If you are on seqfan, why don't use the OEIS first to gain more knowledge ? Look at http://oeis.org/A072883 and you will have the explanation why a(27) and a(64) have no solutions. A good rule to lookup something in the OEIS is : never assume that your own conventions about initial terms, offset, meaning of 0 and 1 have been chosen by everyone. Olivier PS: please next time, find a more appropriate title for your mail. What you are discussing is not the magma calculator but a particular computation you did with it. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:41 PM, ???? ????????? <2stepan at rambler.ru> wrote: > > Dear SeqFans. > Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that > k^n + n is prime: > 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, > 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, 375, > 2, 1, > 0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, > 0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... > > Thanks, JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From israel at math.ubc.ca Wed Feb 25 00:30:45 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 24 Feb 2015 15:30:45 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: x^27 + 27 is divisible by x^9 + 3, x^64 + 64 is divisible by x^32-4*x^16+8. Cheers, Robert On Feb 24 2015, ???? ????????? wrote: > >Dear SeqFans. > > Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that > k^n + n is prime: > >1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, > > 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, > 375, 2, 1, > >0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, > >0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... > >Thanks, JSG > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Wed Feb 25 07:34:47 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:34:47 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: There are about 100,000 sequences with %F lines and about 150,000 without. It's probably worthwhile to run it on all the sequences in oeis.org/stripped.gz. I think adding the Sequencer to the Superseeker would be great -- at least through depth 5, which takes a second or two, and possibly to depth 6 depending on our free processor time (in my experiments this takes a few minutes). I imagine the easiest way would be to run it as a black box, dumping the result to a temp file? Yangchen Pan and Max Alekseyev were working on a project looking for relations between OEIS sequences, they may also have useful information. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API > (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration > should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM > library. > > As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a > mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of > a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance > improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then > Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than > 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which > would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, > dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of > OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would > also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some > of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > > this would definitely be worth doing. > > > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > > formula or recurrence! > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, > umm, > > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > > > a(1) = 1 > > > a(2) = 1 > > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > > > ;) > > > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which > could > > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > > problems of some kind. > > > > > > Best regards > > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > > without > > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of > order n > > > :-) > > > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > > groups > > > > of order n. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From antti.karttunen at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 09:12:54 2015 From: antti.karttunen at gmail.com (Antti Karttunen) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:12:54 +0200 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, wrote: > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 > From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence > identification > Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel at worldwidemann.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > ;) > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > then be investigated rigorously. > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > problems of some kind. Kudos for interesting development! Yes, especially number theoretic primitives would be welcome, because for now your system does not exactly shine on any such sequences. For example, although it correctly identifies factorials: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C2%2C6%2C24%2C120%2C720%2C5040 then for primorials https://oeis.org/A002110 it remains baffled: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+2%2C+6%2C+30%2C+210%2C+2310%2C+30030%2C+510510%2C+9699690 Neither any success with the squares of primes: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=4%2C+9%2C+25%2C+49%2C+121%2C+169%2C+289 (Not to speak about any of A000005, A000010 or A000203). Now, when testing the third row of "Ludic array" https://oeis.org/A255127 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=5%2C+19%2C+35%2C+49%2C+65%2C+79%2C+95%2C+109%2C+125%2C+139%2C+155%2C+169 the SequenceBoss, guesses a working recurrence for it: a_1 = 5, a_2 = 19, a3 = 35, a_n = a_{n-2} - a_{n-3} + a_{n-1} for n >= 4 (This mirrors the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) - a(n-3), n>=4 given for A007310 by Roger Bagula) No such success with the later rows of A255127 though: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=7%2C+31%2C+59%2C+85%2C+113%2C+137%2C+163%2C+191%2C+217%2C+241 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C++55%2C+103%2C+151%2C+203%2C+251%2C++299%2C++343%2C++391%2C++443 (although when looking at their graphs, they all look awfully linear...) Cheers, Antti > > Best regards > Philipp > From antti.karttunen at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 10:24:23 2015 From: antti.karttunen at gmail.com (Antti Karttunen) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:24:23 +0200 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Neither any success with A000265 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+1%2C+3%2C+1%2C+5%2C+3%2C+7%2C+1%2C+9%2C+5%2C+11%2C+3%2C+13%2C+7%2C+15%2C+1%2C+17 (or the associated A003602) Nor with sequences like: https://oeis.org/A126760 or: https://oeis.org/A254104 (nor its inverse A254103). These kinds of sequences are very common in OEIS, where one doesn't recurse with some constant offset decremented from n (as in a(n-1) + a(n-2)) but with n/2 (if n is even) and say, with (n-1)/2 if n is odd. Maybe also some "p-adic primitives" would be good, e.g. applying A007814 ? Best, Antti On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Antti Karttunen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, wrote: > >> Message: 12 >> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 >> From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann >> To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence >> identification >> Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel at worldwidemann.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, >> "slightly exotic" recurrence relation >> >> a(1) = 1 >> a(2) = 1 >> a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 >> >> ;) >> >> In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any >> insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries >> with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the >> system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have >> no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query >> those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a >> hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could >> then be investigated rigorously. >> >> For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial >> and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I >> randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting >> problems of some kind. > > Kudos for interesting development! > > Yes, especially number theoretic primitives would be welcome, because > for now your system does not exactly shine on any such sequences. For > example, although it correctly identifies factorials: > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C2%2C6%2C24%2C120%2C720%2C5040 > > then for primorials https://oeis.org/A002110 it remains baffled: > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+2%2C+6%2C+30%2C+210%2C+2310%2C+30030%2C+510510%2C+9699690 > > Neither any success with the squares of primes: > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=4%2C+9%2C+25%2C+49%2C+121%2C+169%2C+289 > > (Not to speak about any of A000005, A000010 or A000203). > > Now, when testing the third row of "Ludic array" > https://oeis.org/A255127 > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=5%2C+19%2C+35%2C+49%2C+65%2C+79%2C+95%2C+109%2C+125%2C+139%2C+155%2C+169 > > the SequenceBoss, guesses a working recurrence for it: > > a_1 = 5, a_2 = 19, a3 = 35, a_n = a_{n-2} - a_{n-3} + a_{n-1} for n >= 4 > > (This mirrors the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) - a(n-3), n>=4 > given for A007310 by Roger Bagula) > > > No such success with the later rows of A255127 though: > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=7%2C+31%2C+59%2C+85%2C+113%2C+137%2C+163%2C+191%2C+217%2C+241 > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C++55%2C+103%2C+151%2C+203%2C+251%2C++299%2C++343%2C++391%2C++443 > > (although when looking at their graphs, they all look awfully linear...) > > > Cheers, > > Antti > >> >> Best regards >> Philipp >> From apovolot at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 01:32:49 2015 From: apovolot at gmail.com (apovolot at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:32:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <243EA8F9-2612-43D6-AFAF-2E42A32F53CA@gmail.com> Could usage of the prefix formula: be somehow employed to the sequences with no formulas present at all ? > On Feb 24, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > > If you search in the native format for sequences without "%F" lines, you will find the sequences with no formulas present at all. This still leaves a larger number of sequences for which some formula has been added, but not a formula specifically to define the sequence. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > To: seqfan > Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 5:09 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification > > > Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API > (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration > should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM > library. > > As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a > mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of > a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance > improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then > Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than > 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which > would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, > dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of > OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would > also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some > of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > >> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: >> What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds > like >> this would definitely be worth doing. >> >> By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but > no >> formula or recurrence! >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, > NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < >> pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: >> >> > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, > umm, >> > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation >> > >> > a(1) = 1 >> > a(2) = 1 >> > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 >> > >> > ;) >> > >> > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any >> > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for > centuries >> > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run > the >> > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which > have >> > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to > query >> > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return > a >> > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which > could >> > then be investigated rigorously. >> > >> > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more > combinatorial >> > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever > I >> > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be > counting >> > problems of some kind. >> > >> > Best regards >> > Philipp >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: >> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < >> > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > >> > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other > sequences >> > without >> > > > formula. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of > order n >> > :-) >> > > >> > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian >> > groups >> > > of order n. >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Wed Feb 25 06:35:48 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:35:48 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Message-ID: <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> Hi Benoit, Excellent! This certainly is an improvement. But I'm having a little difficulty following how you've obtained the upper and lower bounds, as well as your description of coordinates. So for my n=24 a(n)=83 board, wouldn't you also say the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x> I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the "opposite" >> boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the "Board 4" >> example of the webpage). I'm not sure what you "equalized" to gain the improvement. But still, there is definite improvement. I probably won't have time to look into a structural pattern for n = 4m for several days; my guess is one exists based on your approach, which will improve upon mine. Will you have a chance to see if such a pattern exists? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe -------------------------------------------------- From: "Beno?t Jubin" Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:25 AM To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 > Dear Rob, > I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as > for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the > result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I > made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) > y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): > > ------------------------ > > ......WWWWWW............ > > ......WWWWWW...........W > > ......WWWWWW..........WW > > ......WWWWWW.........WWW > > ......WWWWWW........WWWW > > ......WWWWW........WWWWW > > .......WWW........WWWWWW > > ........W.........WWWWWW > > ..................WWWWWW > > ..................WWWWW. > > ..................WWWW.. > > ..................WWW... > > ....BB.................. > > ...BBB.................. > > ..BBBB.................. > > .BBBBB.................. > > BBBBBB..........B....... > > BBBBBB.........BBB...... > > BBBBBB........BBBB...... > > BBBBB........BBBBB...... > > BBBB........BBBBBB...... > > BBB.........BBBBBB...... > > BB..........BBBBBB...... > > B...........BBBBBB...... > > ------------------------ > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: > >> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, >> I get a maximum of 80, not 84. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t >> Jubin >> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 >> >> Dear seqfans, >> >> Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on >> an (n,n) chessboard. >> >> By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known >> lower bound from >> a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 >> to >> a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. >> I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's >> say >> a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the >> coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the >> following description. >> >> The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by >> x,y >> in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are >> in >> the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x> the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you >> can >> guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the >> "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the >> "Board 4" example of the webpage). >> >> Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically >> (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. >> Anyone to help fill the gap? >> >> Best, >> Benoit >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From benoit.jubin at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 23:10:14 2015 From: benoit.jubin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Jubin?=) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:10:14 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 In-Reply-To: <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> Message-ID: Dear Rob, I think that you interpret the coordinates correctly. My configuration is only a slight modification of yours, but not exactly the same, as you can see in my example for n=24 (in a previous email of this conversation). Also, the bound you give on the webpage, namely (after simplification), a(4m) >= floor( (9/4)*m^2 + m/2 - 3/4 ) made me think that your configuration is given as follows (for n=4m): One decomposes the chessboard into 16 smaller (m,m) chessboards as follows: .A.B .C.D W.X. Y.Z. where the dots are empty chessboards and A, B, C, D contain the queens of one color and W, X, Y, Z contain the queens of the other color. Borrowing to the language of matrices, the occupied squares are as follows: A: all squares, B: strict lower-right half, C: strict upper quarter, that is, intersection of the strict upper-left half and the strict upper-right half, D: upper-left half plus the first subdiagonal, W: lower-right half, X: intersection of the strict lower-right half minus the first subdiagonal and the lower-left half, Y: upper-left half, Z: all squares minus the upper-left one. What I meant by "equalizing the opposite boundaries" is this: in the picture ....|....|......../ ....|....|......./. ....|....|....../.. ....|.../....../... ....|../....../.... .....\/.......|.... ..............|.... ..............|.../ ..............|../. ..--+.........+--.. ./..|.............. /...|.............. ....|.............. ....|......./\..... ..../....../..|.... .../....../...|.... ../......|....|.... ./.......|....|.... /........|....|.... each of the lines x=1/4, x=1/2, x=3/4, y=1/2, y=x, y=x+1/3, y=x-1/3,y=1-x borders a white region and a black region, and the length during which it borders each is equal. This is how I optimized your solution: by translating these lines, one adds to the army of one color while removing from the other color (compensate this on the other pair of regions, to still have equally sized armies), so one deduces that for the optimal configuration of this sort, "opposite boundaries" must have same length. I am mainly interested in asymptotics, where it does not matter whether n is divisible by 4 or not. But for a given n, not necessarily divisible by 4, I would first draw these regions, and for any given square, if more than half of it is within the region, I would put a queen. For the 50%-squares, put queens for one out of the two regions. Finally (possibly not needed), give or take a few queens on the boundaries to get an admissible configuration. Best, Beno?t On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Bob Selcoe wrote: > Hi Benoit, > > Excellent! This certainly is an improvement. > > But I'm having a little difficulty following how you've obtained the upper > and lower bounds, as well as your description of coordinates. > > So for my n=24 a(n)=83 board, wouldn't you also say the queens of one > color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x and 1/2 obtained by central symmetry (or at least something approximating central > symmetry)??? > > So I don't see how the definitions between your and my configurations > differ; that is, when you say: > > I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the "opposite" >>> boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the "Board 4" >>> example of the webpage). >>> >> > I'm not sure what you "equalized" to gain the improvement. > > But still, there is definite improvement. > > I probably won't have time to look into a structural pattern for n = 4m > for several days; my guess is one exists based on your approach, which will > improve upon mine. Will you have a chance to see if such a pattern exists? > > Best Wishes, > Bob Selcoe > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Beno?t Jubin" > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:25 AM > To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 > > > Dear Rob, >> I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as >> for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the >> result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I >> made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) >> y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): >> >> ------------------------ >> >> ......WWWWWW............ >> >> ......WWWWWW...........W >> >> ......WWWWWW..........WW >> >> ......WWWWWW.........WWW >> >> ......WWWWWW........WWWW >> >> ......WWWWW........WWWWW >> >> .......WWW........WWWWWW >> >> ........W.........WWWWWW >> >> ..................WWWWWW >> >> ..................WWWWW. >> >> ..................WWWW.. >> >> ..................WWW... >> >> ....BB.................. >> >> ...BBB.................. >> >> ..BBBB.................. >> >> .BBBBB.................. >> >> BBBBBB..........B....... >> >> BBBBBB.........BBB...... >> >> BBBBBB........BBBB...... >> >> BBBBB........BBBBB...... >> >> BBBB........BBBBBB...... >> >> BBB.........BBBBBB...... >> >> BB..........BBBBBB...... >> >> B...........BBBBBB...... >> >> ------------------------ >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: >> >> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, >>> I get a maximum of 80, not 84. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t >>> Jubin >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM >>> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 >>> >>> Dear seqfans, >>> >>> Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on >>> an (n,n) chessboard. >>> >>> By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known >>> lower bound from >>> a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 >>> to >>> a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. >>> I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's >>> say >>> a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the >>> coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the >>> following description. >>> >>> The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by >>> x,y >>> in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are >>> in >>> the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x>> the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you >>> can >>> guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the >>> "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the >>> "Board 4" example of the webpage). >>> >>> Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically >>> (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. >>> Anyone to help fill the gap? >>> >>> Best, >>> Benoit >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From gladhobo at teksavvy.com Thu Feb 26 21:34:15 2015 From: gladhobo at teksavvy.com (Hans Havermann) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:34:15 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] A126263 Message-ID: I noticed that William Stein's b-file for http://oeis.org/A126263 incorporates an incorrect a(17) that dates to the original sequence submission. One might as well add a(28) which is 73. From peter.luschny at gmail.com Thu Feb 26 22:27:34 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:27:34 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: Conjecture: (a) Every highly abundant number >10 is practical (A005153). (b) For every integer k there exists A such that k divides a(n) for all n>A. Daniel Fischer proved that every highly abundant number greater than 3, 20, 630 is divisible by 2, 6, 12 respectively. The first conjecture has been verified for the first 10000 terms. - Jaycob Coleman, Oct 16 2013 https://oeis.org/A002093 Alaoglu and Erd?s observed that 210 is the largest highly abundant number to include only one factor of two in its prime factorization. All larger highly abundant numbers are divisible by four, and by the argument above they are all practical. The remaining cases are small enough to test individually, and they are all practical. So Jaycob Coleman's conjecture is true. - David Eppstein, 2015-02-26 http://11011110.livejournal.com/305481.html From rkg at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 26 21:40:50 2015 From: rkg at ucalgary.ca (rkg) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:40:50 -0700 (MST) Subject: [seqfan] A000292 (fwd) Message-ID: Further apologies if you've received multiple copies of this. R. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:12:39 -0700 (MST) From: rkg To: Sequence Fans Subject: A000292 (fwd) Sorry, my email has been ``upgraded'' and now my address file seems to be all aglee. R. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:03:43 -0700 (MST) From: rkg To: Neil Sloane , Sloane's Dream Team , bowerc at usa.net, david at research.att.com, David Wilson , deutsch at duke.poly.edu, djr at nk.ca, dwasserm at earthlink.net, editors at seqfan.net, j.mccranie at comcast.net, layman at math.vt.edu, mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl, maxal at cs.ucsd.edu, maxale at gmail.com, maximilian.hasler at gmail.com, mlb at well.com, njas at research.att.com, noe at sspectra.com, rayjchandler at sbcglobal.net, rgwv at rgwv.com, rsc at swtch.com, simon.plouffe at gmail.com, simon.plouffe at sympatico.ca, somos at grail.cba.csuohio.edu, stefan.steinerberger at gmail.com, wasserma at spawar.navy.mil Subject: A000292 Dear all, As my Mother used to say, I'm not a good looker, so I may have missed someething in A000292. These are not only the triangular pyramidal numbers, but also the kind of square pyramidal numbers you get by using cubes, and insisting that square faces must always coincide: 1^2, 2^2, 1^2+3^2, 2^2+4^2, 1^2+3^2+5^2, 2^2+4^2+6^2, ... R. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 From lars.blomberg at visit.se Fri Feb 27 07:48:50 2015 From: lars.blomberg at visit.se (Lars Blomberg) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:48:50 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A254042, A254447-A254502 Message-ID: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> Hello! The sequences A254042, A254447-A254502 are using digits 1-7 respectively. The corresponding sequences for digits 8 and 9 seem to be missing. Does anyone know of a reason why this is so? If not, is it ok to add them? /Lars B From njasloane at gmail.com Fri Feb 27 20:18:38 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:18:38 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A254042, A254447-A254502 In-Reply-To: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> References: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> Message-ID: > If not, is it ok to add them? Certainly! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Lars Blomberg wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > The sequences A254042, A254447-A254502 are using digits 1-7 respectively. > > The corresponding sequences for digits 8 and 9 seem to be missing. > > Does anyone know of a reason why this is so? > > If not, is it ok to add them? > > > > /Lars B > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From peter.luschny at gmail.com Fri Feb 27 20:47:51 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:47:51 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: The argument has been updated. Is it convincing now? Is it appropriate for a nomination for the Riordan Prize? Peter From seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com Sat Feb 28 04:37:20 2015 From: seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com (seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:37:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: <1206331671.6876.1425094640060.JavaMail.root@crow> Hi Peter, Coincidentally I just joined the mailing list. I will take some time to try to understand your argument. Sincerely, Jaycob Coleman On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Peter Luschny 'peter.luschny at gmail.com' via 33Mail wrote: > This email was sent to the alias 'seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com' by ' > seqfan at list.seqfan.eu', and 33Mail forwarded it to you. To block all > further emails to this alias follow this link : > http://www.33mail.com/alias/unsub/15f7de3a21d314f8a067d051ce9beea7 > Refer 2 friends to 33Mail and get a Free Premium Upgrade. Go to this url > to get your referral link http://www.33mail.com/dashboard. > > The argument has been updated. Is it convincing now? > > Is it appropriate for a nomination for the Riordan Prize? > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > -- Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er! From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 07:02:03 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 07:02:03 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Welcome to seqfan (was Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical?) Message-ID: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:37 AM, wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Coincidentally I just joined the mailing list. Dear Jaycob, Welcome to seqfan. > I will take some time to try > to understand your argument. > > Sincerely, > Jaycob Coleman > > There are several hundreds of subscribers to seqfan. The following advice applies to them as well: For your future posts, please take some time to - ponder that your message will be archived and publicly accessible - consider if your message is better sent privately to a few recipients instead of the list - consider if you are enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio - cut out non relevant parts of previous posts (everyone has received them) - change the subject line if you have ... changed the subject - check you have configured your computer and selected your email address and provider to avoid end signatures, mail server messages, advertising insertions, legal disclaimers - remember that the moderator cannot edit your message for you. He can only forward it, reject it or ask you to re-post a better version. - communicate directly with the administrator through seqfan-owner at list.seqfan.eu if you have a question about the list, your subscription, proper netiquette, etc. With my best regards, Olivier G?rard Seqfan Mailing List Administrator > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Peter Luschny 'peter.luschny at gmail.com' > via 33Mail wrote: > > > This email was sent to the alias 'seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com' by ' > > seqfan at list.seqfan.eu', and 33Mail forwarded it to you. To block all > > further emails to this alias follow this link : > > http://www.33mail.com/alias/unsub/15f7de3a21d314f8a067d051ce9beea7 > > Refer 2 friends to 33Mail and get a Free Premium Upgrade. Go to this url > > to get your referral link http://www.33mail.com/dashboard. > > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 28 14:45:22 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:45:22 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A102515 Message-ID: I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 14:53:18 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:53:18 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A102515 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I agree. It seems to match Table[1 + Floor[Sqrt[2 n - 1]], {n, 1, 83}] instead of Table[ Floor[Sqrt[2 n + 1]], {n, 1, 83}] On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its > definition. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 17:25:39 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:25:39 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A102515 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: please edit it accordingly! In fact perhaps you should replace it with two sequences (old values + new defn, old defn + new values)! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Olivier Gerard wrote: > I agree. > > It seems to match > > Table[1 + Floor[Sqrt[2 n - 1]], {n, 1, 83}] > > instead of > > Table[ Floor[Sqrt[2 n + 1]], {n, 1, 83}] > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > > > I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its > > definition. > > Best, > > Harvey > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 18:40:22 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:40:22 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Bob Selcoe's version of the EKG and Yellowstone permutations A064413 and A098550 Message-ID: Dear Sequence Fans, Bob Selcoe recently submitted a lovely new sequence, A255582. Like A064413 (the EKG sequence) and A098550 (the Yellowstone Permutation, subject of our recent arXiv:1501.01669) it is a permutation of the natural numbers. The definition is closer to that of A098550, but the graph is more like that of A064413. It would be nice to have a better understanding of what is going on here! Some associated sequences are A255479, A255480, A255481, A255482, all of which need b-files, and A064664 (the inverse perm to the EKG sequence A064413) could use at least a 10,000-term b-file. Vladimir Shevelev's A254077 is of the same ilk, but here there is no proof yet that it is a permutation of the positive integers: such a proof is badly needed. The cross-references in A098550 list many other related sequences that need work. This is all strawberry ice-cream for anyone who likes sequences. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com From 2stepan at rambler.ru Mon Feb 23 08:59:16 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:59:16 -0000 Subject: [seqfan] 7... In-Reply-To: <1424678353.15294.15613.59949@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424678353.15294.15613.59949@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424678355.225932.3140.63498@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans. Primes p such that 15p -/+ 2, 15p -/+ 4 and 15p -/+ 8 are all primes: 7, ... What in the next ( >10^9 ) one? P.S. Numbers n such that 15n -/+ 2, 15n -/+ 4 and 15n -/+ 8 are all primes: 7, 1071, 1295, 2919, 72751, ... (not in OEIS). Primes p such that (15p - 4, 15p - 2, 15p + 2, 15p + 4) is a prime quadruplet: 7, 13, 139, 1049, 4481, ... (not in OEIS). Thanks, JSG . From arndt at jjj.de Sun Feb 1 10:22:45 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 10:22:45 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] polyominoes on square lattice by symmetry Message-ID: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> About P. Leroux, E. Rassart, A. Robitaille, Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes in the Square Lattice Advances in Applied Mathematics, vol.21, no.3, pp.343-380, (October-1998). Could someone check which sequences given on p.377 are missing in the OEIS? At least 1,1,2,7,17,50,131,363,924,2380 is missing. When entering the seqs please spell out the symmetry type (I cannot do this, that's why am asking on the list). Best, jj From info at polprimos.com Sun Feb 1 02:11:01 2015 From: info at polprimos.com (Omar E. Pol) Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2015 22:11:01 -0300 Subject: [seqfan] A253072. Message-ID: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> Dear Neil, An observation. In the sequences A050476 and A253072 we have that: a(0) = 1 a(1) = 7 a(3) = 95 a(7) = 18447 A253072(2^k-1) = A050476(2^k-1), 0<=k<=m, where m is at least 3. Best regards. Omar E. Pol From arndt at jjj.de Sun Feb 1 11:00:15 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 11:00:15 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] honeycomb polyominoes Message-ID: <20150201100015.GA5352@jjj.de> Similar to the message before: Dominique Gouyou-Beauchamps, Pierre Leroux, Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes on the Honeycomb Lattice, Theoretical Computer Science, vol.346, no.2-3, pp.307-334, (November-2005). p.320: 1 3 11 38 120 348 939 2412 5973 14394 34056 79602 184588 426036 980961 2256420 5189577 11939804 27485271 63308532 145903992 336418179 775996665 1790486717 4132195707 9538127076 22018993552 50835685427 117372288297 271006745255 625758286777 1444911247194 3336422923431 7704147029616 17789770663899 41078790416848 94856243572216 219035659925172 505782887350567 1167921607616731 2696891148564180 6227492958077133 14380140755028117 33205732845460311 76676631829002129 177056959135248647 408849042325490952 944089080678393018 2180032500563641911 5033997137232724122 11624197004721262104 26841881829357335687 And, at end of page: 0, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 12, 18, 59, 120, 318, 714, 1743, ... Also p.322: 1, 1, 3, 6, 15, 38, 91, 222, 528, 1250, ... Also several seqs on p.333 Best, jj From njasloane at gmail.com Sun Feb 1 19:35:37 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sun, 1 Feb 2015 13:35:37 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A253072. In-Reply-To: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> References: <20150201011101.M80143@polprimos.com> Message-ID: Interesting comment! Of course it might be a coincidence. Still, I added it to A253072. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Jan 31, 2015 at 8:11 PM, Omar E. Pol wrote: > Dear Neil, > > An observation. > In the sequences A050476 and A253072 we have that: > > a(0) = 1 > a(1) = 7 > a(3) = 95 > a(7) = 18447 > > A253072(2^k-1) = A050476(2^k-1), 0<=k<=m, where m is at least 3. > > Best regards. > > Omar E. Pol > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From arndt at jjj.de Mon Feb 2 19:18:21 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 19:18:21 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: polyominoes on square lattice by symmetry In-Reply-To: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> References: <20150201092245.GA5191@jjj.de> Message-ID: <20150202181821.GA6579@jjj.de> Will do all of this (incl. other message) myself, but may well be in several weeks from now. Best regards, jj * Joerg Arndt [Feb 01. 2015 12:03]: > About > P. Leroux, E. Rassart, A. Robitaille, > > Enumeration of Symmetry Classes of Convex Polyominoes in the Square Lattice > Advances in Applied Mathematics, vol.21, no.3, pp.343-380, (October-1998). > > Could someone check which sequences given on > p.377 are missing in the OEIS? > > At least 1,1,2,7,17,50,131,363,924,2380 is missing. > > When entering the seqs please spell out the symmetry type > (I cannot do this, that's why am asking on the list). > > Best, jj > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From penson at lptl.jussieu.fr Tue Feb 3 00:24:08 2015 From: penson at lptl.jussieu.fr (Karol) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 00:24:08 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Message-ID: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? Thanking in advance, Karol A. Penson From maxale at gmail.com Tue Feb 3 00:52:29 2015 From: maxale at gmail.com (Max Alekseyev) Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:52:29 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: Hi Karol, There is a formula A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) PARI/GP code: { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2*k) ) } Regards, Max On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: > Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? > > Thanking in advance, > > Karol A. Penson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From israel at math.ubc.ca Tue Feb 3 02:46:31 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 02 Feb 2015 17:46:31 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric function: A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) Cheers, Robert On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: >Hi Karol, > >There is a formula > >A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, > >which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: > >A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >(k+1) * 4^(n-2k) > >PARI/GP code: > >{ A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >* 4^(n-2*k) ) } > >Regards, >Max > > > >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >> >> Thanking in advance, >> >> Karol A. Penson >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From pauldhanna at juno.com Tue Feb 3 03:15:29 2015 From: pauldhanna at juno.com (Paul D Hanna) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 02:15:29 GMT Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Message-ID: <20150202.211529.23111.0@webmail03.dca.untd.com> Also, a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k) * 2^(n-k) * binomial(2*k+2, k)/(k+1). a(n) = Sum_{k=0..n} binomial(n,k) * 2^(n-k) * A000108(k+1). This can be derived from the relation a(n) = [x^n] (1+4*x+x^2)^(n+1) / (n+1) which is due to G.f.: (1/x) * Series_Reversion( x/(1+4*x+x^2) ). However, the formula from Max seems to be more efficient. Paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: Max Alekseyev To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Cc: Karol Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2015 18:52:29 -0500 Hi Karol, There is a formula A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) PARI/GP code: { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) * 4^(n-2*k) ) } Regards, Max On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: > Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? > > Thanking in advance, > > Karol A. Penson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From hv at crypt.org Tue Feb 3 18:34:58 2015 From: hv at crypt.org (hv at crypt.org) Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2015 17:34:58 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring Message-ID: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 at the 0 digits. For example 29648^2 = 879003904 so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What is the largest element of S? .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 (cardinality of the set). I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' in , and will go update the sequences on the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if someone could confirm some or all of the values though. I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be of interest. Hugo --- With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" 2: 2 2 3: 18 1849 4: 2 2 5: 3050 266423227914725931 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 8: 2 4 With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" 2: 2 2 3: 6 16 4: 2 2 5: 20 192 6: 13 128 7: 72 32768 8: 3 4 9: 92 69632 10: 42 23552 11: 308 25722880 12: 34 425984 13: 900 717895680 14: 178 1051828224 15: 1739 217079873536 16: 4 8 17: 3349 2270641389568 18: 443 10603200512 19: 4523 156423849771008 20: 387 950175531008 21: 14364 25160124578398208 22: 1827 385584983965696 23: 18672 450589122059304960 24: 234 40722497536 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 32: 5 16 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 01:33:51 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:33:51 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> References: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Message-ID: Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding to the OEIS! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: > Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: > > For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 at > the 0 digits. For example > > 29648^2 = 879003904 > > so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } > > Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What > is > the largest element of S? > > .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 (cardinality > of the set). > > I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but > when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running > project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which > meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. > > I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' > in , and will go update the sequences on > the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if > someone could confirm some or all of the values though. > > I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, > which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another > approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think > n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. > > With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing > s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough > it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth > adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be > of interest. > > Hugo > --- > With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" > 2: 2 2 > 3: 18 1849 > 4: 2 2 > 5: 3050 266423227914725931 > 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 > 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 > 8: 2 4 > > With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" > 2: 2 2 > 3: 6 16 > 4: 2 2 > 5: 20 192 > 6: 13 128 > 7: 72 32768 > 8: 3 4 > 9: 92 69632 > 10: 42 23552 > 11: 308 25722880 > 12: 34 425984 > 13: 900 717895680 > 14: 178 1051828224 > 15: 1739 217079873536 > 16: 4 8 > 17: 3349 2270641389568 > 18: 443 10603200512 > 19: 4523 156423849771008 > 20: 387 950175531008 > 21: 14364 25160124578398208 > 22: 1827 385584983965696 > 23: 18672 450589122059304960 > 24: 234 40722497536 > 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 > 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 > 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 > 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 > 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 > 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 > 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 > 32: 5 16 > 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 > 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 > 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 > 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 > 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 > 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 > 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 > 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 > 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 > 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 > 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 > 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 > 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 > 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 > 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 > 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 > 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 > 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 > 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 > 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 > 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 > 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 > 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 > 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 > 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 > 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 > 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 > 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 > 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 > 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 01:36:17 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 19:36:17 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: References: <201502031734.t13HYwP09486@crypt.org> Message-ID: Hugo, Is what I meant to say... Hugo, certainly those two sequences are worth adding to the OEIS! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding > to the OEIS! Please do so! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: > >> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: >> >> For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 >> at >> the 0 digits. For example >> >> 29648^2 = 879003904 >> >> so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } >> >> Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What >> is >> the largest element of S? >> >> .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 >> (cardinality >> of the set). >> >> I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but >> when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running >> project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which >> meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. >> >> I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' >> in , and will go update the sequences on >> the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if >> someone could confirm some or all of the values though. >> >> I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, >> which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another >> approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think >> n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. >> >> With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing >> s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough >> it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth >> adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be >> of interest. >> >> Hugo >> --- >> With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" >> 2: 2 2 >> 3: 18 1849 >> 4: 2 2 >> 5: 3050 266423227914725931 >> 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 >> 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 >> 8: 2 4 >> >> With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" >> 2: 2 2 >> 3: 6 16 >> 4: 2 2 >> 5: 20 192 >> 6: 13 128 >> 7: 72 32768 >> 8: 3 4 >> 9: 92 69632 >> 10: 42 23552 >> 11: 308 25722880 >> 12: 34 425984 >> 13: 900 717895680 >> 14: 178 1051828224 >> 15: 1739 217079873536 >> 16: 4 8 >> 17: 3349 2270641389568 >> 18: 443 10603200512 >> 19: 4523 156423849771008 >> 20: 387 950175531008 >> 21: 14364 25160124578398208 >> 22: 1827 385584983965696 >> 23: 18672 450589122059304960 >> 24: 234 40722497536 >> 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 >> 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 >> 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 >> 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 >> 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 >> 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 >> 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 >> 32: 5 16 >> 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 >> 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 >> 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 >> 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 >> 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 >> 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 >> 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 >> 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 >> 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 >> 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 >> 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 >> 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 >> 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 >> 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 >> 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 >> 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 >> 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 >> 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 >> 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 >> 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 >> 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 >> 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 >> 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 >> 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 >> 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 >> 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 >> 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 >> 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 >> 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 >> 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > From hv at crypt.org Wed Feb 4 02:52:19 2015 From: hv at crypt.org (hv at crypt.org) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 01:52:19 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A113917 and A113918: zero-free squaring In-Reply-To: Message-ID: <201502040152.t141qJP10329@crypt.org> Now proposed as A254637, A254638. (Given it's otherwise the same code as discussed below for A113917/8, maybe this would be a better example for someone else to confirm.) Hugo Neil Sloane wrote: :Hugo, Is what I meant to say... : :Hugo, certainly those two sequences are worth adding :to the OEIS! Please do so! : :Best regards :Neil : :Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. :11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. :Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. :Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com :Email: njasloane at gmail.com : : :On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 7:33 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: : :> Hans, certainly those two sequences are worth adding :> to the OEIS! Please do so! :> :> Best regards :> Neil :> :> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. :> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. :> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. :> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com :> Email: njasloane at gmail.com :> :> :> On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 12:34 PM, wrote: :> :>> Back in Jan 2006, David Wilson introduced this question: :>> :>> For a number n, let f(n) be the set of numbers gotten by splitting n^2 :>> at :>> the 0 digits. For example :>> :>> 29648^2 = 879003904 :>> :>> so f(29648) = { 4, 39, 879 } :>> :>> Let S be the smallest set of numbers containing 2 and fixed by f. What :>> is :>> the largest element of S? :>> :>> .. which eventually gave A113917 (largest element) and A113918 :>> (cardinality :>> of the set). :>> :>> I did say at the time "I don't have full confidence in the results", but :>> when trying to clean up my 2006 code recently, as part of a long-running :>> project to push all my maths code to Github, I found several bugs which :>> meant some of the results were wrong. Sorry about that. :>> :>> I've fixed those and further improved the code, available under 'zerofree' :>> in , and will go update the sequences on :>> the assumption that my new code is correct. I'd still appreciate it if :>> someone could confirm some or all of the values though. :>> :>> I estimate the cardinality for A113918(9) is between 10^10 and 10^13, :>> which I can't calculate with my current approach (but I have another :>> approach in mind that might reach it). Given the rate of growth, I think :>> n=10 (ie the original question) is likely to be beyond my means. :>> :>> With the new code it's easy to change the calculation, and replacing :>> s -> s^2 with s -> 2s gives a new pair of sequences that grows slow enough :>> it's easy to calculate more terms; I'm not sure if they're also worth :>> adding to OEIS, or if there are different calculations that would also be :>> of interest. :>> :>> Hugo :>> --- :>> With calculation s -> s^2: "n: card(n) max(n)" :>> 2: 2 2 :>> 3: 18 1849 :>> 4: 2 2 :>> 5: 3050 266423227914725931 :>> 6: 34762 3100840870711697060720215047 :>> 7: 3087549 845486430620513036335402848567278325780455810752216401 :>> 8: 2 4 :>> :>> With calculation s -> 2s: "n: card(n) max(n)" :>> 2: 2 2 :>> 3: 6 16 :>> 4: 2 2 :>> 5: 20 192 :>> 6: 13 128 :>> 7: 72 32768 :>> 8: 3 4 :>> 9: 92 69632 :>> 10: 42 23552 :>> 11: 308 25722880 :>> 12: 34 425984 :>> 13: 900 717895680 :>> 14: 178 1051828224 :>> 15: 1739 217079873536 :>> 16: 4 8 :>> 17: 3349 2270641389568 :>> 18: 443 10603200512 :>> 19: 4523 156423849771008 :>> 20: 387 950175531008 :>> 21: 14364 25160124578398208 :>> 22: 1827 385584983965696 :>> 23: 18672 450589122059304960 :>> 24: 234 40722497536 :>> 25: 39426 53279734579488838656 :>> 26: 15882 127148822502119047168 :>> 27: 52664 299326717942059499520 :>> 28: 8858 43157851113903387312128 :>> 29: 128253 13526981441472537034752 :>> 30: 28346 449522648486053412864 :>> 31: 123087 371244129204723018366976 :>> 32: 5 16 :>> 33: 259207 23655711299608586448011264 :>> 34: 87797 103182870656711001112576 :>> 35: 363512 39823687474383259120435200 :>> 36: 44545 63973308447624725004288 :>> 37: 671389 313519863989706816307303809024 :>> 38: 182549 45225850656203876163438682112 :>> 39: 1336282 31933986316064959928909955072 :>> 40: 18049 6034750858947540643601186816 :>> 41: 1289210 4145806855637690163777954119680 :>> 42: 634402 143410752413726318705389116325888 :>> 43: 2679419 251570201273324198920857495653056512 :>> 44: 156629 9442738596003761319219036160 :>> 45: 3428818 288049927140258932406824739012608 :>> 46: 987498 20384387023837630566380055072075677696 :>> 47: 5876576 16579286652350303184601394767032483840 :>> 48: 13308 152556272234873601963528260943872 :>> 49: 8122478 463424116819682991065891465214793542008832 :>> 50: 3118809 63039435236897106221986787164071919616 :>> 51: 14743535 247126135557931098912701316497011638272 :>> 52: 796352 1083181655178944127338714024967634157568 :>> 53: 15921180 71286088956163866149580753955553592475648 :>> 54: 4952057 2150676694930424720837752491965232971776 :>> 55: 29170111 507477067298501219491044453334717130866688 :>> 56: 403964 1746977513106742264740052226757623808 :>> 57: 48839762 27320774362755367988623371083844092646391808 :>> 58: 11997500 6094365163190490383475585992644805477269504 :>> 59: 71116907 9188495794580645540482153719631435565136609280 :>> 60: 2675259 14463684581762047084433709884282673037312 :>> 61: 122451245 9107655699502841924691980127153411750800769679360 :>> 62: 17820844 199082515611433949561498862265902993781030912 :>> :>> :>> _______________________________________________ :>> :>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ :>> :> :> : :_______________________________________________ : :Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From maxale at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 03:06:14 2015 From: maxale at gmail.com (Max Alekseyev) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:06:14 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] self-referential forms Message-ID: SeqFans, I've recently tried to formalize and give some counts for the question on self-referential forms at MathOverflow: http://mathoverflow.net/questions/194905/compiling-self-referential-forms In particular, I computed two sequences there, which may be considered for addition to the OIES. I'm however not sure if they are motivated enough and not too special for the general interest. So I'd like to know your opinion in this respect. Regards, Max From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 04:03:31 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 22:03:31 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: self-referential forms In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Max, Those sequences have 3 things going for them - they were created by one of the best contributors to the OEIS (you), they are on the web, and at least one other person on math overflow is interested in them. So, yes, definitely submit them Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 9:06 PM, Max Alekseyev wrote: > SeqFans, > > I've recently tried to formalize and give some counts for the question > on self-referential forms at MathOverflow: > http://mathoverflow.net/questions/194905/compiling-self-referential-forms > In particular, I computed two sequences there, which may be considered > for addition to the OIES. > I'm however not sure if they are motivated enough and not too special > for the general interest. So I'd like to know your opinion in this > respect. > > Regards, > Max > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From ixitol at gmail.com Wed Feb 4 06:33:57 2015 From: ixitol at gmail.com (Russell Walsmith) Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2015 21:33:57 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] A sequence of sequence-generating matrices Message-ID: Exploring different numerical sequences* generated by a certain 3 x 3 matrix, I found it to be part of an n x n family with a similar, though increasingly complex, form. I've discovered six entries in this sequence of matrices so far... does anyone see where it goes from here...? http://ixitol.com/MatrixSequence * (e.g., A249578 , A249579 , A249580 ...) From penson at lptmc.jussieu.fr Wed Feb 4 20:01:38 2015 From: penson at lptmc.jussieu.fr (Karol A. Penson) Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2015 20:01:38 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> Re: A005572 I thank Max Alekseyev, Robert Israel and Paul Hanna for important remarks. Robert's compact form can be further transformed using formula 8.3.2.135, ch.8, p.666 of Yury A. Brychkov, "Handbook of Special Functions, Derivatives, Integrals, Series and Other Formulas", (CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008), and the following relation obtains using the classical Gegenbauer polynomials, in Maple notation: A005572(n)=2*(12^(n/2))*(n!/(n+2)!)*GegenbauerC(n, 3/2, 2/sqrt(3)), n=0,1... . Robert, would you like to enter your formula; I will then enter my Gegenbauer version. Best, Karol A. Penson Le 03/02/2015 02:46, israel at math.ubc.ca a ?crit : > And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric > function: > > A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) > > Cheers, > Robert > > On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: > >> Hi Karol, >> >> There is a formula >> >> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, >> >> which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: >> >> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >> (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) >> >> PARI/GP code: >> >> { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >> * 4^(n-2*k) ) } >> >> Regards, >> Max >> >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >>> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >>> >>> Thanking in advance, >>> >>> Karol A. Penson >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From israel at math.ubc.ca Wed Feb 4 22:40:06 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 04 Feb 2015 13:40:06 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question on A005572 from K. A. Penson In-Reply-To: <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> References: <54D00718.50007@lptl.jussieu.fr> <54D26C92.9040708@lptmc.jussieu.fr> Message-ID: Done. I note that Peter Luschny has also entered a different hypergeometric form. I don't know how that one was derived. Cheers, Robert On Feb 4 2015, Karol A. Penson wrote: > Re: A005572 > >I thank Max Alekseyev, Robert Israel and Paul Hanna for important remarks. >Robert's compact form can be further transformed using formula >8.3.2.135, ch.8, p.666 > of Yury A. Brychkov, "Handbook of Special Functions, Derivatives, >Integrals, Series and Other Formulas", >(CRC Press, Taylor and Francis, New York, 2008), >and the following relation obtains using the classical Gegenbauer >polynomials, in Maple notation: > > A005572(n)=2*(12^(n/2))*(n!/(n+2)!)*GegenbauerC(n, 3/2, 2/sqrt(3)), >n=0,1... . > >Robert, would you like to enter your formula; I will then enter my >Gegenbauer version. > >Best, > > >Karol A. Penson > > > > > > >Le 03/02/2015 02:46, israel at math.ubc.ca a ?crit : >> And, according to Maple, these sums can be written as a hypergeometric >> function: >> >> A005572(n) = 4^n*hypergeom([-n/2, (1-n)/2], [2], 1/4) >> >> Cheers, >> Robert >> >> On Feb 2 2015, Max Alekseyev wrote: >> >>> Hi Karol, >>> >>> There is a formula >>> >>> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^n A097610(n,k)*4^k, >>> >>> which expands (with substitution k -> n-2k) into: >>> >>> A005572(n) = \sum_{k=0}^{[n/2]} binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2k,k) / >>> (k+1) * 4^(n-2k) >>> >>> PARI/GP code: >>> >>> { A005572(n) = sum(k=0,n\2, binomial(n,2*k) * binomial(2*k,k) / (k+1) >>> * 4^(n-2*k) ) } >>> >>> Regards, >>> Max >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 6:24 PM, Karol wrote: >>>> Does anybody know how to obtain the close form of A005572(n) ? >>>> >>>> Thanking in advance, >>>> >>>> Karol A. Penson >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> >>>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de Thu Feb 5 20:08:28 2015 From: mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de (Richard J. Mathar) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:08:28 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] g.f. in A157143 Message-ID: <20150205190828.GA14851@mathar.mpia-hd.mpg.de> Is the generating function in A157143 correct? The Maple lines cx := (1-sqrt(1-4*x))/(2*x) ; gx := subs(x=(x/(1+x^2+x^3))^2,cx)*(1-x)/(1+x^2+x^3) ; series(%,x=0,50) ; gfun[seriestolist](%) ; based on the A000108 g.f. generate 1, -1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 2, -2, 4, -5, 8, -13, 18, -32, 46, -77, 123, -192, 325,.. and the mx := (1-x-sqrt(1-2*x-3*x^2))/(2*x^2) ; gx := subs(x=(x/(1+x^2+x^3))^2,mx)*(1-x)/(1+x^2+x^3) ; series(%,x=0,50) ; gfun[seriestolist](%) ; based on the A000106 (assuming a typo in the formula) g.f. gives 1, -1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 1, -1, 6, 0, -3, -20, 10, 20, 20, -84, -3, 135, 228 and both don't match. From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Sat Feb 7 22:01:47 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 15:01:47 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe From Rob.Pratt at sas.com Sat Feb 7 23:17:51 2015 From: Rob.Pratt at sas.com (Rob Pratt) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 22:17:51 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 W W W W W 2 W W W W W 3 W W W W W W 4 W W W W W W 5 W W W W W W 6 W W W W W 7 W W W W 8 W W W 9 W W 10 B B 11 B B B 12 B B B B 13 B B B B B 14 B B B B B B B 15 B B B B B B B B 16 B B B B B B B 17 B B B B B B -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob Selcoe Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Sat Feb 7 23:23:29 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Sat, 7 Feb 2015 23:23:29 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Absolute diff and sums not to be shared Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello SeqFans, We want S to be a permutation of the integers >0; We want S to be the lexicographically first seq of its kind (see below); If we take two adjacent integers of S, say p & q, we want that: -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the abs. diff. |p-q| -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the sum (p+q) -> no |p-q|=(p'+q') with p'and q' being two other adjacent integers in S. So S is extended with the smallest integer n such that neither |(n-1)-n| nor [(n-1)+n] has occurred before as a sum or as a diff. of two adjacent integers in S. Sum 3 6 12 11 13 28 27 32 29 22 S(n)= 1 2 4 8 3 10 18 9 23 6 16 ... Dif 1 2 4 5 7 8 9 14 17 10 Hope this is not old hat, Best, ?. From reinhard.zumkeller at gmail.com Sun Feb 8 00:49:11 2015 From: reinhard.zumkeller at gmail.com (Reinhard Zumkeller) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 00:49:11 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Absolute diff and sums not to be shared In-Reply-To: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> References: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03B571C46625@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Message-ID: see https://oeis.org/draft/A254788 Best, Reinhard 2015-02-07 23:23 GMT+01:00 Eric Angelini : > Hello SeqFans, > We want S to be a permutation of the integers >0; > We want S to be the lexicographically first seq of its kind (see below); > If we take two adjacent integers of S, say p & q, we want that: > -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the abs. diff. |p-q| > -> no other pair of adjacent integers in S shares the sum (p+q) > -> no |p-q|=(p'+q') with p'and q' being two other adjacent integers in S. > > So S is extended with the smallest integer n such that neither |(n-1)-n| > nor [(n-1)+n] has occurred before as a sum or as a diff. of two adjacent > integers in S. > > Sum 3 6 12 11 13 28 27 32 29 22 > S(n)= 1 2 4 8 3 10 18 9 23 6 16 ... > Dif 1 2 4 5 7 8 9 14 17 10 > > Hope this is not old hat, > Best, > ?. > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From Rob.Pratt at sas.com Sun Feb 8 04:43:30 2015 From: Rob.Pratt at sas.com (Rob Pratt) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 03:43:30 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Here it is with unoccupied squares indicated with dots (view with a fixed-width font): ....WWWWW........ ....WWWWW........ ....WWWWW.......W ....WWWW.......WW ....WWW.......WWW .....W.......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. ..BB............. .BBB............. BBBB............. BBBB.......B..... BBBB......BBB.... BBBB.....BBBB.... BBB......BBBB.... BB.......BBBB.... From: Rob Pratt Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 5:18 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: RE: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 1 W W W W W 2 W W W W W 3 W W W W W W 4 W W W W W W 5 W W W W W W 6 W W W W W 7 W W W W 8 W W W 9 W W 10 B B 11 B B B 12 B B B B 13 B B B B B 14 B B B B B B B 15 B B B B B B B B 16 B B B B B B B 17 B B B B B B -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob Selcoe Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 Hello Seqfans, The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some fascinating problems. The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an upper bound, as well. For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the pattern. Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum number of queens) for a(17)? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Sun Feb 8 07:52:14 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Sun, 8 Feb 2015 00:52:14 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <9822A525B8DE44D79AD6E4E13405CEB9@OwnerPC> <54AEBE97.9020305@brennen.net> <88684506471F4A2FA027EEC93A2D771E@OwnerPC> <8D1F9DFE915F766-83C-DC319@webmail-va113.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Hi again Rob an others, And two more 42-queen variations for n=17: Alternative 1: .....WWWWW....... .....WWWWW....... .....WWWWW......W .....WWWW......WW .....WWW......WWW ......W......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. ...BB............ ..BBB............ .BBBB............ BBBBB......BB.... BBBBB.....BBB.... BBBB......BBB.... BBB.......BBB.... BB........BBB.... Alternative 2: ....WWWW........W ....WWWW.......WW ....WWWW......WWW ....WWWW.....WWWW .....WW......WWWW .............WWWW .............WWW. .............WW.. .............W... ..BB............. .BBB............. BBBB.......B..... BBBB......BBB.... BBB......BBBB.... BB......BBBBB.... B.......BBBBB.... ........BBBBB.... The symmetry of the W-blocks and the quasi-symmetry of the B-blocks for the second example surprises me. I wonder if there are any solutions for a(n) > floor_(9n^2/64) for any n? Cheers, Bob S -------------------------------------------------- From: "Rob Pratt" Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 9:43 PM To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" Subject: [seqfan] Re: Question re: A250000 > Here it is with unoccupied squares indicated with dots (view with a > fixed-width font): > > ....WWWWW........ > ....WWWWW........ > ....WWWWW.......W > ....WWWW.......WW > ....WWW.......WWW > .....W.......WWWW > .............WWWW > .............WWW. > .............WW.. > ..BB............. > .BBB............. > BBBB............. > BBBB.......B..... > BBBB......BBB.... > BBBB.....BBBB.... > BBB......BBBB.... > BB.......BBBB.... > > From: Rob Pratt > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 5:18 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: RE: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 > > > Here's a 17x17 solution with 42 queens of each color: > > > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > 4 > > 5 > > 6 > > 7 > > 8 > > 9 > > 10 > > 11 > > 12 > > 13 > > 14 > > 15 > > 16 > > 17 > > 1 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 2 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 3 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 4 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 5 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 6 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 7 > > W > > W > > W > > W > > 8 > > W > > W > > W > > 9 > > W > > W > > 10 > > B > > B > > 11 > > B > > B > > B > > 12 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 13 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 14 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 15 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 16 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > 17 > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > B > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Bob > Selcoe > Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2015 4:02 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Question re: A250000 > > > > > > Hello Seqfans, > > > > The sequence A250000 (maximum number of peacefully coexisting equal-sized > "armies" of queens on chess boards of varying n X n sizes) poses some > fascinating problems. > > > > The length of the sequence is small; only up to a(13) = 24. > > > > The "known" lower bound for a solution is a(n) = 9/64*n^2. There is a link > to a paper by Prestwich and Beck referenced in the sequence which expands > on this idea. I can't follow the paper, but it apparently provides an > upper bound, as well. > > > > For all n = 4m+1 m>=0, I can show a pattern of quasi-symmetric queen > placement such that a(n) = 2m(m+1). For m = {0..3}, this is indeed the > maximum number of queens possible. For m>=4, these solutions are < the > known lower bound of (9/64)*n^2. > > > > I have proposed for A250000 examples of solutions using this queen pattern > for n=9 and n=13. Please refer to the sequence history to see the > pattern. > > Since the pattern yields 40 for n=17, and a(17)=42 is the known lower > bound, it (apparently) does not provide a solution for a(17). > > > > Can anyone show an actual example of a 17 X 17 chessboard where the number > of queens > 40, even if it can't be proven to be a solution (maximum > number of queens) for a(17)? > > > > Best Wishes, > > Bob Selcoe > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From andrew.weimholt at gmail.com Mon Feb 9 10:29:53 2015 From: andrew.weimholt at gmail.com (Andrew Weimholt) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 01:29:53 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Message-ID: Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew From franktaw at netscape.net Mon Feb 9 11:12:26 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:12:26 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A027624 initial term In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D212680A1EAF46-13DC-37227@webmail-va003.sysops.aol.com> There's the fact that the formula in the definition evaluates to 1 for n = 0. Why do you think it should be 2? Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Weimholt To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 3:29 am Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Mon Feb 9 11:14:12 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 05:14:12 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A027624 initial term In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D21268490AA7E6-13DC-3722F@webmail-va003.sysops.aol.com> Sorry, I typed the wrong sequence number. Please ignore my previous message. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Weimholt To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Mon, Feb 9, 2015 3:29 am Subject: [seqfan] A027624 initial term Hi, I believe the first term of A027624 should be 2, not 1. The history shows that Eric W. Weisstein was going to make such a "correction" a while back, but then changed his mind and backed out the change. Can anyone offer an explanation? Andrew _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From peter.luschny at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 11:30:35 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:30:35 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin Message-ID: In A250544, A223069, A250669, A250692 R. H. Hardin gives the empirical recurrence a(n) = 16*a(n-1)-106*a(n-2)+376*a(n-3)-769*a(n-4) +904*a(n-5)-564*a(n-6)+144*a(n-7) I simply wish to observe that these coefficients are listed in the ninth row of Peter Bala's A246117. Peter From seqfan at hasler.fr Wed Feb 11 12:48:59 2015 From: seqfan at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 07:48:59 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. Maximilian On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 6:30 AM, Peter Luschny wrote: > In A250544, A223069, A250669, A250692 > R. H. Hardin gives the empirical recurrence > > a(n) = 16*a(n-1)-106*a(n-2)+376*a(n-3)-769*a(n-4) > +904*a(n-5)-564*a(n-6)+144*a(n-7) > > I simply wish to observe that these coefficients are > listed in the ninth row of Peter Bala's A246117. > > Peter From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 13:05:10 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:05:10 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: M. F. Hasler >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. > >Maximilian > > From seqfan at hasler.fr Wed Feb 11 13:23:03 2015 From: seqfan at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 08:23:03 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Ron, I am also personally against duplicating links (really never understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up doing a search for the other sequence numbers. I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true added value, I think. Maximilian On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. > > It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > >>________________________________ >> From: M. F. Hasler >>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >> >> >>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. >> >>Maximilian >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 13:34:33 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 04:34:33 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in general. At least it seems that way to me. I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any foreign sequence that happens to reference inwards. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: M. F. Hasler >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >Ron, > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true >added value, I think. > >Maximilian > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in the table will find them. >> >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. >> >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in this family. >> >> >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> >> >>>________________________________ >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >>> >>> >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar manner. >>> >>>Maximilian >>> >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Wed Feb 11 14:21:52 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:21:52 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] a(a(n)+a(n+1)) has property X Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03BD24CA4FD9@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello SeqFans, S is the lexico-first permutation of the positive integers with the property ? a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is even ? S = 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 7, 9, 12, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 17, 19, 22, 21, 24, 26, 23, 25, 28, 27, 30, 29, 32, 31, 33, 34, 35, 36, 38, 40, ... In other words: a) take two adjacent integers x and y in S b) let (x + y) = z c) a(z) is even. S was extended with the smallest integer not yet in S and not leading to a contradiction. Testing the formula: n = 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 ... S = 1, 2, 4, 3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 7, 9, 12, 11, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 17, 19, 22, 21,... for n=1 then a(1)=1 and a(2)=2 and a(sum) reads a(1+2) reads a(3) which is 4 (even); for n=2 then a(2)=2 and a(3)=4 and a(sum) reads a(2+4) reads a(6) which is 6 (even); for n=3 then a(3)=4 and a(4)=3 and a(sum) reads a(4+3) reads a(7) which is 8 (even); for n=4 then a(4)=3 and a(5)=5 and a(sum) reads a(3+5) reads a(8) which is 10 (even); ... etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remark #1: The seq T, where a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is always odd is already in the OEIS: https://oeis.org/A000027 ;-D But if we force a(1)=2 we then get again a permutation of A000027: T' = 2, 1, 3, 5, 4, 6, 7, 9, 11, 13, 8, 10, 15, 12, ,14, 17, 16, 19, 18, 21, 23, 20, 22, 25, 27, 29, 31, 24, 26, 28, 33, ... -------------------------------------------------------------------- Remark #2: The seq P, where a(a(n)+a(n+1)) is always prime is also a permutation of of A000027: P = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 11, 9, 13, 10, 17, 12, 19, 14, 15, 23, 29, 31, 16, 37, 41, 18, ... Best, ?. From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 17:23:16 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 11:23:16 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Just to clarify one point: The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the cross-references section. (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every line) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any foreign > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >________________________________ > > From: M. F. Hasler > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > > > > > >Ron, > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > >added value, I think. > > > >Maximilian > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in > the table will find them. > >> > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > >> > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > this family. > >> > >> > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > >> > >> > >>>________________________________ > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > >>> > >>> > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > manner. > >>> > >>>Maximilian > >>> > >>> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Wed Feb 11 20:15:32 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:15:32 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but not the xref field? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Just to clarify one point: > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > cross-references section. > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > line) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not in > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with all > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > foreign > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > Hardin > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > >added value, I think. > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link in > > the table will find them. > > >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way without a > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > this family. > > >> > > >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > >> > > >> > > >>>________________________________ > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > Hardin > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > manner. > > >>> > > >>>Maximilian > > >>> > > >>> > > >> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 20:41:00 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:41:00 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance what sequences are mentioned. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but > not the xref field? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > Just to clarify one point: > > > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > > cross-references section. > > > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > > line) > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not > in > > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with > all > > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > > foreign > > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > > >added value, I think. > > > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link > in > > > the table will find them. > > > >> > > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > without a > > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > > >> > > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > > this family. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>________________________________ > > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > > manner. > > > >>> > > > >>>Maximilian > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> > > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 11 20:56:01 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:56:01 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance what sequences are mentioned. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an entry but > not the xref field? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > Just to clarify one point: > > > > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > > cross-references section. > > > > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through every > > line) > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, but not > in > > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > > > > > > > > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page with > all > > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as any > > foreign > > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > > > > > > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > > > > > > > >________________________________ > > > > From: M. F. Hasler > > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > > > > > > > > > >Ron, > > > > > > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula should > > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the links > > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search with only > > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but often > > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the sequence > > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > > > > > > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables A250676 and > > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop up > > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > > > > > > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to have > > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why they are > > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is a true > > > >added value, I think. > > > > > > > >Maximilian > > > > > > > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin wrote: > > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs link > in > > > the table will find them. > > > >> > > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > without a > > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond that. > > > >> > > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like this, in > > > this family. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >> > > > >> > > > >>>________________________________ > > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > > > Hardin > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a similar > > > manner. > > > >>> > > > >>>Maximilian > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> _______________________________________________ > > > >> > > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > > > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From peter.luschny at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 21:30:20 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:30:20 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin Message-ID: The discussion went slightly off-topic, and the old habit to change the name of a thread when the topic changes seems to be a forgotten virtue. But let me come back to Hardin's empirical recurrence. I do not think that it is a coincidence that the coefficients appear in Bala's A246117 although this is hard demonstrate at the moment. In the spirit of experimental math let me look also at the recurrences a(n) and b(n) (case 2 and 3 in a more general setup which makes Hardin's c(n) the case 4). a(n) = 4*a(n-1)-5*a(n-2)+2*a(n-3), b(n) = 9*b(n-1)-31*b(n-2)+51*b(n-3)-40*b(n-4)+12*b(n-5), c(n) = 16*c(n-1)-106*c(n-2)+376*c(n-3)-769*c(n-4)+904*c(n-5)-564*c(n-6)+144*c(n-7). So now my problem are meaningful initial terms, a(0), a(1), a(2) and b(0), b(1), b(2), b(3), b(4). Any suggestions for the initial terms? Peter From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 21:35:03 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 15:35:03 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to cross-references. If you are using the OEIS for what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it will help, but did you look at A...... ? " And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, so it is easy to find them. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance > what sequences are mentioned. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> > entry but > >> not the xref field? >> >> Charles Greathouse >> Analyst/Programmer >> Case Western Reserve University >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >> > wrote: > >> >> > Just to clarify one point: >> > >> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >> > cross-references section. >> > >> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >> > every > >> > line) >> > >> > Best regards >> > Neil >> > >> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >> > Piscataway, NJ. > >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > >> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >> > but not > >> in >> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >> > > >> > > >> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >> > with > >> all >> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >> > any > >> > foreign >> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >> > > >> > > >> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> > > >> > > >________________________________ >> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >Ron, >> > > > >> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >> > should > >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >> > links > >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >> > with only > >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >> > often > >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >> > sequence > >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >> > > > >> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >> > A250676 and > >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >> > up > >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >> > > > >> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >> > have > >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >> > they are > >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >> > a true > >> > > >added value, I think. >> > > > >> > > >Maximilian >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >> > link > >> in >> > > the table will find them. >> > > >> >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >> without a >> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >> > that. > >> > > >> >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >> > this, in > >> > > this family. >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>>________________________________ >> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >> > similar > >> > > manner. >> > > >>> >> > > >>>Maximilian >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >_______________________________________________ >> > > > >> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 11 22:33:49 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:33:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Cross-refs (retitled) In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just pointing out how far we are from doing it that way. I did at one point do some searches for "base" sequences that did not have the keyword, and corrected a few hundred of them. I'm not going to do something similar for the thousands of exceptions to this rule. I guess the first step is for the editors to start uniformly enforcing the rule for both new and modified sequences. Actually, I do object to cross-refs that, if all references of this sort were added, thousands of cross-refs would be added to a single sequence. Consider, for the moment, the effect of adding a cross-ref from A000040 to every sequence that mentions primes. Hints are good, but not when you can't see the trees for the forest. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 2:35 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to cross-references. If you are using the OEIS for what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it will help, but did you look at A...... ? " And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, so it is easy to find them. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance > what sequences are mentioned. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> > entry but > >> not the xref field? >> >> Charles Greathouse >> Analyst/Programmer >> Case Western Reserve University >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >> > wrote: > >> >> > Just to clarify one point: >> > >> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >> > cross-references section. >> > >> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >> > every > >> > line) >> > >> > Best regards >> > Neil >> > >> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >> > Piscataway, NJ. > >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> > >> > >> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > >> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >> > but not > >> in >> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >> > > >> > > >> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >> > with > >> all >> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >> > any > >> > foreign >> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >> > > >> > > >> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> > > >> > > >________________________________ >> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >Ron, >> > > > >> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >> > should > >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >> > links > >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >> > with only > >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >> > often > >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >> > sequence > >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >> > > > >> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >> > A250676 and > >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >> > up > >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >> > > > >> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >> > have > >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >> > they are > >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >> > a true > >> > > >added value, I think. >> > > > >> > > >Maximilian >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >> > wrote: > >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >> > link > >> in >> > > the table will find them. >> > > >> >> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >> without a >> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >> > that. > >> > > >> >> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >> > this, in > >> > > this family. >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >> > > >> >> > > >> >> > > >>>________________________________ >> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >> > R. H. > >> > > Hardin >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >> > similar > >> > > manner. >> > > >>> >> > > >>>Maximilian >> > > >>> >> > > >>> >> > > >> >> > > >> _______________________________________________ >> > > >> >> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >_______________________________________________ >> > > > >> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 22:54:50 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 16:54:50 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Cross-refs (retitled) In-Reply-To: <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <8D214598E88EBBC-B34-43019@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I certainly was not suggesting that if A references B then B should reference A. That has never been a rule. (There are remarks about this in one of the ancient "format of entries" files.) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 4:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > I'm not disagreeing with that. I'm just pointing out how far we are from > doing it that way. I did at one point do some searches for "base" sequences > that did not have the keyword, and corrected a few hundred of them. I'm not > going to do something similar for the thousands of exceptions to this rule. > > I guess the first step is for the editors to start uniformly enforcing the > rule for both new and modified sequences. > > Actually, I do object to cross-refs that, if all references of this sort > were added, thousands of cross-refs would be added to a single sequence. > Consider, for the moment, the effect of adding a cross-ref from A000040 to > every sequence that mentions primes. Hints are good, but not when you can't > see the trees for the forest. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Neil Sloane > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 2:35 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > > I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to > cross-references. > > If you are using the OEIS for > what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help > you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come > up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > > A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it > will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > > And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, > so it is easy to find them. > > > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" >> > gives > >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Neil Sloane >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. >> > Hardin > >> >> >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a >> > glance > >> what sequences are mentioned. >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, >> > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: >> >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >> >>> >>> entry but >> >> not the xref field? >>> >>> Charles Greathouse >>> Analyst/Programmer >>> Case Western Reserve University >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >>> >>> wrote: >> >> >>> > Just to clarify one point: >>> > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >>> > cross-references section. >>> > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >>> >>> every >> >> > line) >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Neil >>> > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >>> >>> Piscataway, NJ. >> >> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >>> wrote: >> >> > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >>> >>> but not >> >> in >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe >>> >> below. > >> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >>> >>> with >> >> all >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >>> >>> any >> >> > foreign >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >________________________________ >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >>> R. H. >> >> > > Hardin >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >Ron, >>> > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >>> >>> should >> >> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >>> >>> links >> >> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >>> >>> with only >> >> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >>> >>> often >> >> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it >>> >> is > >> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >>> >>> sequence >> >> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >>> > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >>> >>> A250676 and >> >> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >>> >>> up >> >> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >>> > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >>> >>> have >> >> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >>> >>> they are >> >> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >>> >>> a true >> >> > > >added value, I think. >>> > > > >>> > > >Maximilian >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >>> wrote: >> >> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >>> >>> link >> >> in >>> > > the table will find them. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >>> without a >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >>> >>> that. >> >> > > >> >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >>> >>> this, in >> >> > > this family. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >>>________________________________ >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >>> R. H. >> >> > > Hardin >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >>> >>> similar >> >> > > manner. >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>Maximilian >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ >>> > > >> >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >>> > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From rhhardin at att.net Wed Feb 11 23:05:57 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:05:57 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> It's easy to add the %Y lines (done!) to the generating programs but it changes how you look at the line if it's an index of mentions above rather than something you might want to look at as decided by a human. Either way is okay. It just changes the use. The count-against is that you lose the human editor, and so may skip them all because so many are useless. rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) >________________________________ > From: Neil Sloane >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 3:35 PM >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin > > >I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to >cross-references. > >If you are using the OEIS for >what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help >you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come >up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > >A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it >will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > >And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, >so it is easy to find them. > > > >Best regards >Neil > >Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters >wrote: > >> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Neil Sloane >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin >> >> >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a glance >> what sequences are mentioned. >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: >> >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an >>> >> entry but >> >>> not the xref field? >>> >>> Charles Greathouse >>> Analyst/Programmer >>> Case Western Reserve University >>> >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane >>> >> wrote: >> >>> >>> > Just to clarify one point: >>> > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the >>> > cross-references section. >>> > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through >>> >> every >> >>> > line) >>> > >>> > Best regards >>> > Neil >>> > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, >>> >> Piscataway, NJ. >> >>> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com >>> > >>> > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >> wrote: >> >>> > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, >>> >> but not >> >>> in >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. >>> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page >>> >> with >> >>> all >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as >>> >> any >> >>> > foreign >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >>> > > >>> > > >________________________________ >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >> R. H. >> >>> > > Hardin >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >Ron, >>> > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula >>> >> should >> >>> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the >>> >> links >> >>> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search >>> >> with only >> >>> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but >>> >> often >> >>> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is >>> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the >>> >> sequence >> >>> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). >>> > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables >>> >> A250676 and >> >>> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop >>> >> up >> >>> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. >>> > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to >>> >> have >> >>> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why >>> >> they are >> >>> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is >>> >> a true >> >>> > > >added value, I think. >>> > > > >>> > > >Maximilian >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin >>> >> wrote: >> >>> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs >>> >> link >> >>> in >>> > > the table will find them. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way >>> without a >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond >>> >> that. >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like >>> >> this, in >> >>> > > this family. >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) >>> > > >> >>> > > >> >>> > > >>>________________________________ >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of >>> >> R. H. >> >>> > > Hardin >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a >>> >> similar >> >>> > > manner. >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>>Maximilian >>> > > >>> >>> > > >>> >>> > > >> >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ >>> > > >> >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ >>> > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ >>> > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > > >>> > >>> > _______________________________________________ >>> > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> > >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From njasloane at gmail.com Wed Feb 11 23:55:25 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 17:55:25 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Good point, about discouraging human readers. How about something like this? The machine-generated cross-references could say: Cf. (generated automatically): A234111, A234112, ... Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Ron Hardin wrote: > It's easy to add the %Y lines (done!) to the generating programs but it > changes how you look at the line if it's an index of mentions above rather > than something you might want to look at as decided by a human. Either way > is okay. It just changes the use. > > The count-against is that you lose the human editor, and so may skip them > all because so many are useless. > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > > >________________________________ > > From: Neil Sloane > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 3:35 PM > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > > > > > >I cannot understand why there is ever an objection to > >cross-references. > > > >If you are using the OEIS for > >what it chiefly intended for, its main purpose, which is to help > >you (very often, me) understand a sequence that has come > >up in your work, then any hint at all is potentially valuable. > > > >A cross-reference is like someone whispering to you, "I don't know if it > >will help, but did you look at A...... ? " > > > >And they should all be listed in the cross-reference section, > >so it is easy to find them. > > > > > > > >Best regards > >Neil > > > >Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > >Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:56 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > >wrote: > > > >> Just as a point of reference, a search for "A000217 -xref:A000217" gives > >> 933 matches, out of 2699 that match "A000217". > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Neil Sloane > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Wed, Feb 11, 2015 1:41 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. > Hardin > >> > >> > >> I forget. But the main reason is for humans to be able to see at a > glance > >> what sequences are mentioned. > >> > >> Best regards > >> Neil > >> > >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com > >> > >> > >> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 2:15 PM, Charles Greathouse < > >> charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > >> > >> What part of Russ' code work improperly when a sequence is in an > >>> > >> entry but > >> > >>> not the xref field? > >>> > >>> Charles Greathouse > >>> Analyst/Programmer > >>> Case Western Reserve University > >>> > >>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 11:23 AM, Neil Sloane > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> > Just to clarify one point: > >>> > > >>> > The rule is that if there is a line anywhere in the entry that > >>> > mentions A123456, then Cf. A123456 should also appear in the > >>> > cross-references section. > >>> > > >>> > (there are two good reasons: so Russ's code works > >>> > properly, and so the user can easily see if A123456 is > >>> > referred to anywhere in the entry without having to search through > >>> > >> every > >> > >>> > line) > >>> > > >>> > Best regards > >>> > Neil > >>> > > >>> > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > >>> > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > >>> > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, > >>> > >> Piscataway, NJ. > >> > >>> > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > >>> > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > >>> > > >>> > > >>> > On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 7:34 AM, Ron Hardin > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > > >>> > > I agree than any specific case can benefit from two-way links, > >>> > >> but not > >> > >>> in > >>> > > general. At least it seems that way to me. > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > I don't understand the first paragraph problem you describe below. > >>> > > Clicking "refs" in the header of the table gives you a nice page > >>> > >> with > >> > >>> all > >>> > > the rows and columns and diagonals expanded for you, as well as > >>> > >> any > >> > >>> > foreign > >>> > > sequence that happens to reference inwards. > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > >>> > > rhhardin at att.net (either) > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> > > >________________________________ > >>> > > > From: M. F. Hasler > >>> > > >To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>> > > >Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 7:23 AM > >>> > > >Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of > >>> > >> R. H. > >> > >>> > > Hardin > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Ron, > >>> > > > > >>> > > >I am also personally against duplicating links (really never > >>> > > >understood why an A-number put somewhere in comment or formula > >>> > >> should > >> > >>> > > >be repeated in Xrefs), but it is nonetheless handy to have the > >>> > >> links > >> > >>> > > >to the column sequences because else you have to do a search > >>> > >> with only > >> > >>> > > >the sequence number in order to find them via the backlink, but > >>> > >> often > >> > >>> > > >you come there following a link and not doing a search (and it is > >>> > > >somehow counter-intuitive to copy-paste the number of the > >>> > >> sequence > >> > >>> > > >already displayed on the screen again into the search box...). > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Also, in the present case there was no link to the tables > >>> > >> A250676 and > >> > >>> > > >A250691 with almost identical definition, and they would not pop > >>> > >> up > >> > >>> > > >doing a search for the other sequence numbers. > >>> > > > > >>> > > >I also agree on the "significance" issue, and it is painfully to > >>> > >> have > >> > >>> > > >a bunch of sequence numbers in the Xrefs without knowing why > >>> > >> they are > >> > >>> > > >there. But with 2-3 words of explanation or just hints, this is > >>> > >> a true > >> > >>> > > >added value, I think. > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Maximilian > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 8:05 AM, Ron Hardin > >>> > >> wrote: > >> > >>> > > >> The row/col/diag series always link to the table, so the refs > >>> > >> link > >> > >>> in > >>> > > the table will find them. > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> It always seemed like needless clutter to link the other way > >>> without a > >>> > > reason beyond existence. It seems to claim significance beyond > >>> > >> that. > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> The inbound links by contrast say that there are more like > >>> > >> this, in > >> > >>> > > this family. > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> rhhardin at mindspring.com > >>> > > >> rhhardin at att.net (either) > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >>>________________________________ > >>> > > >>> From: M. F. Hasler > >>> > > >>>To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >>> > > >>>Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2015 6:48 AM > >>> > > >>>Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of > >>> > >> R. H. > >> > >>> > > Hardin > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>>I added your comment in A250544, and also several missing > >>> > > >>>cross-references to sequences which list the rows/cols. > >>> > > >>>It would be nice if others could edit related sequences in a > >>> > >> similar > >> > >>> > > manner. > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>>Maximilian > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >>> > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ > >>> > > >> > >>> > > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > >_______________________________________________ > >>> > > > > >>> > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > >>> > > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > > >>> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > > >>> > > >>> > _______________________________________________ > >>> > > >>> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > > >>> > >>> _______________________________________________ > >>> > >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >>> > >>> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From michel.marcus at free.fr Wed Feb 11 21:15:17 2015 From: michel.marcus at free.fr (michel.marcus at free.fr) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:15:17 +0100 (CET) Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: <1588911053.534795074.1423685610707.JavaMail.root@spooler7-g27.priv.proxad.net> Message-ID: <115735703.534802904.1423685717411.JavaMail.root@spooler7-g27.priv.proxad.net> I guess that's why the "refs" link in A000217 is: A000217 -id:A000217 . Michel Marcus From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Mon Feb 9 07:43:48 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 15:43:48 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Generalized Amicable Number Message-ID: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Seqfans I genaralized Amicable Number as follows (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 I computed it by hand x = 5^2*11*29*2^2*3^2 y = 5^2*11*29*7^2 x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 Could anyon confirm them and compute more term? Yasutoshi From jfb at brennen.net Thu Feb 12 18:05:53 2015 From: jfb at brennen.net (Jack Brennen) Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2015 09:05:53 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Generalized Amicable Number In-Reply-To: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> References: <65391.114.49.34.179.1423464228.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Message-ID: <54DCDD71.6050003@brennen.net> For your first pair, it seems that they satisfy the equation: (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=4/3*(x*y)^(1/2) I can confirm that the other two you provided are correct. Is it possible that the ratio of 8/5 doesn't need to be fixed, but instead of the form 2-2/p ? Given the significance of the "-2" in the computation of (-1)Sigma(x), I could imagine how that might make sense. Pairs that I found that satisfy the equation at the given 8/5 ratio include: x = y = 2^3*3^3*5*13*19 x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 {Your 3rd pair} x = y = 2^4*3^3*5*7*19*29 x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 {Your 2nd pair} x = y = 2^2*3^3*5^3*7*11*19 x = y = 2^6*3*5^5*61 x = y = 2^3*3^2*5^2*7*11*13*29 On 2/8/2015 10:43 PM, zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp wrote: > Hi,Seqfans > I genaralized Amicable Number as follows > > (-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) > > The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 > > I computed it by hand > > x = 5^2*11*29*2^2*3^2 > y = 5^2*11*29*7^2 > > x = y > = 2^2*3^3*5^2*7*19*29 > > x = 3^3*7*19*29*2^4 > y = 3^3*7*19*29*5^2 > > Could anyon confirm them and compute > more term? > > > > Yasutoshi > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 01:59:34 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 00:59:34 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A133579 Message-ID: I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey From franktaw at netscape.net Sat Feb 14 02:33:18 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 20:33:18 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides a(n-1). A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Harvey P. Dale To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm Subject: [seqfan] A133579 I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 03:13:06 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:13:06 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and added some example lines to clarify the situation. The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition of A133579 should be: a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I will fix that. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides a(n-1). > > A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for > A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Harvey P. Dale > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > > > I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > sequence from its > definition. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 03:21:53 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 21:21:53 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and added > some example lines to clarify the situation. > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct it?), > and probably the programs also need correcting. > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct > definition of A133579 should be: > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at > a(6), I believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it > needs to be recomputed. (a(6) should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, > it should be 0, and I will fix that. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides >> a(n-1). >> >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset for >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harvey P. Dale >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above >> sequence from its >> definition. >> Best, >> Harvey >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 17:33:23 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:33:23 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect the changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's revised definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. Best, Harvey -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil Sloane Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and > added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > of A133579 should be: > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > will fix that. > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides >> a(n-1). >> >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset >> for >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) >> >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Harvey P. Dale >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 >> >> >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above >> sequence from its definition. >> Best, >> Harvey >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 17:40:31 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 16:40:31 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A133058 Message-ID: I provided a Mma program and a b-file for the above sequence. Best, Harvey From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 14 18:33:11 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 12:33:11 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Harvey, Thanks for your work on A133580 and A133058. As for A133579, I corrected the terms and added a companion sequence A253092. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay > even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect the > changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. > I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's revised > definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. > Best, > Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil > Sloane > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 > > A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset and > > added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > > of A133579 should be: > > > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > > will fix that. > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > > > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides > >> a(n-1). > >> > >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the offset > >> for > >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Harvey P. Dale > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > >> > >> > >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > >> sequence from its definition. > >> Best, > >> Harvey > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 14 19:26:30 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:26:30 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 In-Reply-To: References: <8D2160D583A7A09-1734-526E2@webmail-vm135.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Neil: I added a Mma program for each of A133579 and A253092 and a b-file for the former. Best, Harvey -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil Sloane Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2015 12:33 PM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 Harvey, Thanks for your work on A133580 and A133058. As for A133579, I corrected the terms and added a companion sequence A253092. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:33 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I checked the Mma programs for A133580 and they are still okay > even after the offset was changed. I recomputed the b-file to reflect > the changed offset and the new b-file has now been uploaded. > I cannot generate the terms of A133579 even using Neil's > revised definition so I suspect the revised definition is still not correct. > Best, > Harvey > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Neil > Sloane > Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 9:22 PM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133579 > > A133058 needed a similar correction (and lacks a b-file - Harvey?) > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 9:13 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > > First, about A133580: the definition was correct, and the terms were > > correct, but the offset should have been 0. I changed the offset > > and added some example lines to clarify the situation. > > > > The b-file is now wrong, unfortunately (Harvey, could you correct > > it?), and probably the programs also need correcting. > > > > Following Franklin's hint, this suggests that the correct definition > > of A133579 should be: > > > > a(0)=a(1)=1; for n>1, a(n) = 3*a(n-1) if a(n-1) and n are coprime, > > otherwise a(n) = a(n-1)/gcd(a(n-1),n). > > > > This almost matches the terms, but there is a mistake at a(6), I > > believe, - as Harvey noticed - so it needs to be recomputed. (a(6) > > should be 1 not 9). The offset is also wrong, it should be 0, and I > > will fix that. > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Fri, Feb 13, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > > franktaw at netscape.net> wrote: > > > >> The definition is clearly wrong, since gcd(n,a(n-1)) always divides > >> a(n-1). > >> > >> A133580 seems to be related, and may provide a clue. (BTW, the > >> offset for > >> A133580 is wrong; from the definition it should be 0.) > >> > >> Franklin T. Adams-Watters > >> > >> > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: Harvey P. Dale > >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > >> Sent: Fri, Feb 13, 2015 6:59 pm > >> Subject: [seqfan] A133579 > >> > >> > >> I cannot figure out how to generate the terms of the above > >> sequence from its definition. > >> Best, > >> Harvey > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ > >> > >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > >> > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From arndt at jjj.de Sat Feb 14 20:00:11 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 20:00:11 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin In-Reply-To: References: <1423656310.37806.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <1423658073.83338.YahooMailNeo@web185003.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> <8D2144BE3004646-B34-429C7@webmail-vm109.sysops.aol.com> <1423692357.25896.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <20150214190011.GA25417@jjj.de> [I was biting my tongue up to here] * Neil Sloane [Feb 12. 2015 08:19]: > Good point, about discouraging human readers. > > How about something like this? The machine-generated > cross-references could say: > > Cf. (generated automatically): A234111, A234112, ... Yes! There will be some draw backs, e.g., when people do the A-number dance in the formula section, e.g., writing A000040(n) for prime(n) or (much worse) A000027(n) for n. And pretty please un-enforce the manual adding of all crossrefs. Best, jj > > Best regards > Neil > > [...] From acwacw at gmail.com Sun Feb 15 00:51:34 2015 From: acwacw at gmail.com (Allan Wechsler) Date: Sat, 14 Feb 2015 18:51:34 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple regime at n=638. a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, for all k>=0. On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I provided a Mma program and a b-file for the above sequence. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From oeis at hasler.fr Sun Feb 15 15:04:28 2015 From: oeis at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 10:04:28 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple > regime at n=638. > a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, for > all k>=0. I agree with Allan's result (and added PARI code producing the same sequence). If one defines a(1)=1; a(n+1) = a(n) + n + 1 if a(n) and n are coprime, otherwise a(n+1) = a(n)/gcd(a(n),n). one gets a "trivial" sequence having this behaviour right from the start : 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 7, 14, 2, 1, 11, 22, 2, 1, 15, 30, 2, 1, 19,... i.e., a(4n+1) = 1, a(4n+2) = 4n+3, a(4n+3) = 8n+6, a(4n) = 2. which I submitted in spite of "kw: easy, dumb" as A255051 ; Changing the +1 to +2 yields yet another (less trivial) variant, 1, 4, 2, 7, 13, 20, 10, 19, 29, 40, 4, 17, 31, 46, 23, 40, 5, ... submitted as A255140. -- Maximilian From acwacw at gmail.com Sun Feb 15 15:30:38 2015 From: acwacw at gmail.com (Allan Wechsler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 09:30:38 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: A comment by the author (Zizka) seems to recognize the possibility of these period-4 regimes. This leads me to think that one might devise a meta-sequence telling how soon the regime is entered depending on starting values. On Feb 15, 2015 9:05 AM, "M. F. Hasler" wrote: > On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 7:51 PM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > > If the program and b-file are right, the sequence enters a very simple > > regime at n=638. > > a(638+4k) = 1, a(639+4k) = 641+4k, a(640+4k) = 1282+8k, a(641+4k) = 2, > for > > all k>=0. > > I agree with Allan's result (and added PARI code producing the same > sequence). > If one defines > a(1)=1; a(n+1) = a(n) + n + 1 if a(n) and n are coprime, > otherwise a(n+1) = a(n)/gcd(a(n),n). > > one gets a "trivial" sequence having this behaviour right from the start : > 1, 3, 6, 2, 1, 7, 14, 2, 1, 11, 22, 2, 1, 15, 30, 2, 1, 19,... > i.e., a(4n+1) = 1, a(4n+2) = 4n+3, a(4n+3) = 8n+6, a(4n) = 2. > > which I submitted in spite of "kw: easy, dumb" as A255051 ; > Changing the +1 to +2 yields yet another (less trivial) variant, > 1, 4, 2, 7, 13, 20, 10, 19, 29, 40, 4, 17, 31, 46, 23, 40, 5, ... > submitted as A255140. > -- > Maximilian > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From oeis at hasler.fr Sun Feb 15 16:58:43 2015 From: oeis at hasler.fr (M. F. Hasler) Date: Sun, 15 Feb 2015 11:58:43 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A133058 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: On Sun, Feb 15, 2015 at 10:30 AM, Allan Wechsler wrote: > A comment by the author (Zizka) seems to recognize the possibility of these > period-4 regimes. This leads me to think that one might devise a > meta-sequence telling how soon the regime is entered depending on starting > values. Maybe, but note that A255140 enters a different loop, of form (1,x,2x,x) and not (1,x,2x,2). So actually we would have (at least) these 3 variants (**) (with ...+n vs. +n+1 and offset/indexing a[n-1] vs a[n]) and for each of these a meta sequence, function of the respective a[1]. (**) The a(n+1) = a(n)*2+1 resp. a(n)*3 variants do not have this looping property, but each has its own self-similarity property, which is for the latter also explained by the simple recurrence formula I added for A253092 = log3 A133579. -- Maximilian From rhhardin at att.net Mon Feb 16 17:22:52 2015 From: rhhardin at att.net (Ron Hardin) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:22:52 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Guess the formula T(n,k)=? Message-ID: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> This is likely to be T(n,k)=f(n)+f(k) with f() having a 2^() flavor. Every row, column and the diagonal satisfy the same recurrence. The solutions seem to pick every 3rd row or column for 1's and sometimes add cross rows or columns of 1's. /tmp/eyg T(n,k)=Number of (n+2)X(k+2) 0..1 arrays with no 3x3 subblock diagonal sum 0 and no antidiagonal sum 0 and no row sum 2 and no column sum 2 Table starts ..23..22..31..43..61..88.127.184.268.391.571..835.1222.1789.2620.3838.5623.8239 ..22..28..37..49..67..94.133.190.274.397.577..841.1228.1795.2626.3844.5629.8245 ..31..37..46..58..76.103.142.199.283.406.586..850.1237.1804.2635.3853.5638.8254 ..43..49..58..70..88.115.154.211.295.418.598..862.1249.1816.2647.3865.5650.8266 ..61..67..76..88.106.133.172.229.313.436.616..880.1267.1834.2665.3883.5668.8284 ..88..94.103.115.133.160.199.256.340.463.643..907.1294.1861.2692.3910.5695.8311 .127.133.142.154.172.199.238.295.379.502.682..946.1333.1900.2731.3949.5734.8350 .184.190.199.211.229.256.295.352.436.559.739.1003.1390.1957.2788.4006.5791.8407 .268.274.283.295.313.340.379.436.520.643.823.1087.1474.2041.2872.4090.5875.8491 .391.397.406.418.436.463.502.559.643.766.946.1210.1597.2164.2995.4213.5998.8614 Empirical for diagonal: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 Empirical for column k: k=1: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 k=2: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=3: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=4: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=5: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=6: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) k=7: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) Two solutions for n=8 k=8 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 rhhardin at mindspring.com rhhardin at att.net (either) From susanne.wienand at gmail.com Tue Feb 17 23:05:43 2015 From: susanne.wienand at gmail.com (Susanne Wienand) Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 23:05:43 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Guess the formula T(n,k)=? In-Reply-To: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> References: <1424103772.41349.YahooMailNeo@web185002.mail.gq1.yahoo.com> Message-ID: Hello Ron, The terms seem to be related to A000930, Narayana's cow sequence. If decreased by 22 and then divided by 3, the terms become .1/3....0....3....7....13....22..35..54..82..123..183..271..400..589..866..1272..1867..2739 ..0.....2....5....9....15....24..37..56..84..125..185..273..402..591..868..1274..1869..2741 ..3.....5....8...12....18....27..40..59..87..128..188..276..405..594..871..1277..1872..2744 ..7.....9...12...16....22....31..44..63..91..132..192..280..409..598..875..1281..1876..2748 .13....15...18...22....28....37..50..69..97..138..198..286..415..604..881..1287..1882..2754 .22....24...27...31....37....46..59..78.106..147..207..295..424..613..890..1296..1891..2763 .35....37...40...44....50....59..72..91.119..160..220..308..437..626..903..1309..1904..2776 .54....56...59...63....69....78..91.110.138..179..239..327..456..645..922..1328..1923..2795 .82....84...87...91....97...106.119.138.166..207..267..355..484..673..950..1356..1951..2823 123...125..128..132...138...147.160.179.207..248..308..396..525..714..991..1397..1992..2864 Most differences (except upper left corner) along the columns and the rows seem to match with A000930: *2*, *3*, *4*, *6*, *9*, *13*, *19*, *28*, 41, 60, 88, 129, 189, 277, 406, 595, 872, 1278 T(2,2) - T(2,1) = 2 - 0 = 2 T(2,3) - T(2,2) = 5 - 2 = 3 T(2,4) - T(2,3) = 9 - 5 = 4 ... I hope this can help to find the formula. Regards Susanne 2015-02-16 17:22 GMT+01:00 Ron Hardin : > This is likely to be T(n,k)=f(n)+f(k) with f() having a 2^() flavor. > > > Every row, column and the diagonal satisfy the same recurrence. > > The solutions seem to pick every 3rd row or column for 1's and sometimes > add cross rows or columns of 1's. > > > /tmp/eyg > T(n,k)=Number of (n+2)X(k+2) 0..1 arrays with no 3x3 subblock diagonal sum > 0 and no antidiagonal sum 0 and no row sum 2 and no column sum 2 > > Table starts > > ..23..22..31..43..61..88.127.184.268.391.571..835.1222.1789.2620.3838.5623.8239 > > ..22..28..37..49..67..94.133.190.274.397.577..841.1228.1795.2626.3844.5629.8245 > > ..31..37..46..58..76.103.142.199.283.406.586..850.1237.1804.2635.3853.5638.8254 > > ..43..49..58..70..88.115.154.211.295.418.598..862.1249.1816.2647.3865.5650.8266 > > ..61..67..76..88.106.133.172.229.313.436.616..880.1267.1834.2665.3883.5668.8284 > > ..88..94.103.115.133.160.199.256.340.463.643..907.1294.1861.2692.3910.5695.8311 > > .127.133.142.154.172.199.238.295.379.502.682..946.1333.1900.2731.3949.5734.8350 > > .184.190.199.211.229.256.295.352.436.559.739.1003.1390.1957.2788.4006.5791.8407 > > .268.274.283.295.313.340.379.436.520.643.823.1087.1474.2041.2872.4090.5875.8491 > > .391.397.406.418.436.463.502.559.643.766.946.1210.1597.2164.2995.4213.5998.8614 > > Empirical for diagonal: > a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 > Empirical for column k: > k=1: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) for n>5 > k=2: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=3: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=4: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=5: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=6: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > k=7: a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2)+a(n-3)-a(n-4) > > Two solutions for n=8 k=8 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1 > ..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1..1....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > ..0..0..0..0..0..1..0..0..1..0....0..1..0..0..1..0..0..1..0..0 > > > > rhhardin at mindspring.com > rhhardin at att.net (either) > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From 2stepan at rambler.ru Thu Feb 19 15:55:11 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 17:55:11 +0300 Subject: [seqfan] 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans, Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... What in the next one? Thanks. JSG From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Thu Feb 19 16:56:24 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 16:56:24 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: Youri, If you restrict to x, y, 0 or positive integers, your list is certainly 2 plus Mersenne primes, anyway the next one should be 127. If you allow x, y any integer, you will probably find that only 2 cannot be represented this way. Olivier On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 3:55 PM, ???? ????????? <2stepan at rambler.ru> wrote: > > Dear SeqFans, > Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... > > What in the next one? > > Thanks. JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Thu Feb 19 17:04:45 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2015 10:04:45 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: 4xy + 6x - 1 In-Reply-To: <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424357709.807527.19545.27241@mail.rambler.ru> <1424357710.983999.15355.48162@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <37A5F4897FEB4645829AF7CB37B94C93@OwnerPC> Hello, 127. The sequence will be 2 and the Mersenne primes. The equation is 2x(2y+3)-1, which is all the even numbers times all the odd numbers minus 1. These are all the odd numbers except 2^n-1 which, when prime, are the Mersennes. Best, Bob Selcoe -------------------------------------------------- From: "???? ?????????" <2stepan at rambler.ru> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:55 AM To: Subject: [seqfan] 4xy + 6x - 1 > > Dear SeqFans, > Primes not of the form 4xy + 6x - 1: 2, 3, 7, 31, ... > > What in the next one? > > Thanks. JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Fri Feb 20 10:53:42 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 09:53:42 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Is there any problems with this proof? Message-ID: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at it and tell me if it true? http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed.? Related: https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 ?John W. Nicholson From felix.froe at googlemail.com Fri Feb 20 11:10:10 2015 From: felix.froe at googlemail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Felix_Fr=C3=B6hlich?=) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 11:10:10 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS Message-ID: Dear SeqFans, as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in the OEIS Wiki. See https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the corresponding talk pages. Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 or A000043. As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which keywords would be useful. What do others think? Best regards Felix Fr?hlich From maximilian.hasler at gmail.com Fri Feb 20 12:19:51 2015 From: maximilian.hasler at gmail.com (Maximilian F. Hasler) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 07:19:51 -0400 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I'm quite in favor of this, and more. I developed some thoughts on https://oeis.org/wiki/User:M._F._Hasler/Work_in_progress/Improvements_of_OEIS I think switching to freely definable categories could be an interesting alternative/complement to (or way of maintaining) the currently existing index. Maximilian Le 20 f?vr. 2015 06:11, "Felix Fr?hlich" a ?crit : > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Fri Feb 20 19:18:04 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:18:04 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords available can't be very difficult. Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere close to being right. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Felix Fr?hlich To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS Dear SeqFans, as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in the OEIS Wiki. See https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the corresponding talk pages. Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 or A000043. As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which keywords would be useful. What do others think? Best regards Felix Fr?hlich _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Fri Feb 20 18:24:10 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 12:24:10 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > available can't be very difficult. > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > close to being right. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Fr?hlich > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From franktaw at netscape.net Fri Feb 20 19:36:26 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 13:36:26 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D21B4AE31E7FE1-23D4-8FBC5@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> I suggested some time ago linking keywords and the index. One would enter a "keyword" for the sequence, and this would automatically create an index entry for it. The keywords on search screens could then be live links to the index entries. (One would have to manually create the index entry itself and define its associated keyword.) Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Neil Sloane To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 12:25 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > available can't be very difficult. > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might think > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes quite > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences depend > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > close to being right. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Felix Fr?hlich > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > Dear SeqFans, > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found regarding > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > the OEIS Wiki. See > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and the > corresponding talk pages. > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The addition > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword 'prim' > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > or A000043. > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS database, I > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding which > keywords would be useful. > > What do others think? > > Best regards > > Felix Fr?hlich > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From r.rosenthal at web.de Fri Feb 20 20:30:19 2015 From: r.rosenthal at web.de (Rainer Rosenthal) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:30:19 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> Am 20.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Neil Sloane: > ... Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? What has the game of Go to do with this? I love Go, so I am very interested. Cheers, Rainer From jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr Fri Feb 20 20:37:12 2015 From: jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr (jean-paul allouche) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 20:37:12 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> <54E78B4B.8050303@web.de> Message-ID: <54E78CE8.2080909@imj-prg.fr> Hi Go is a programming language, see, e.g., https://golang.org best jean-paul Le 20/02/15 20:30, Rainer Rosenthal a ?crit : > Am 20.02.2015 um 18:24 schrieb Neil Sloane: >> ... Charles and I had discussed adding "categories". >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > What has the game of Go to do with this? > I love Go, so I am very interested. > > Cheers, > Rainer > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From charles.greathouse at case.edu Fri Feb 20 20:47:49 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 14:47:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily > rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding > "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > > available can't be very difficult. > > > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might > think > > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes > quite > > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences > depend > > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > > close to being right. > > > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Felix Fr?hlich > > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > > > > Dear SeqFans, > > > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found > regarding > > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > > the OEIS Wiki. See > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and > the > > corresponding talk pages. > > > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The > addition > > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword > 'prim' > > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > > or A000043. > > > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS > database, I > > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding > which > > keywords would be useful. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best regards > > > > Felix Fr?hlich > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Fri Feb 20 23:24:17 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 17:24:17 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <241484269.320541.1424426022835.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the heuristic? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at it > and tell me if it true? > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > Related: > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > John W. Nicholson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 21 01:58:06 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 00:58:06 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Charles, Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1??John W. Nicholson On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse wrote: I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the heuristic? Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at it > and tell me if it true? > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > Related: > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > >? John W. Nicholson > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From seqfan at matcos.nl Fri Feb 20 21:59:05 2015 From: seqfan at matcos.nl (Matthijs Coster) Date: Fri, 20 Feb 2015 21:59:05 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <54E7A019.2050006@matcos.nl> I would like keywords such that only sequences can be searched which are increasing, non decreasing, consist of different integers. That would be wonderful! Matthijs Coster Charles Greathouse schreef op 20-2-2015 om 20:47: > I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. > Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would > be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though > this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > >> Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily >> rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding >> "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < >> franktaw at netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >>> While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords >>> available can't be very difficult. >>> >>> Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it >>> belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might >> think >>> to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be >>> automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are >>> probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes >> quite >>> late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very >>> large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences >>> which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences >> depend >>> on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere >>> close to being right. >>> >>> Franklin T. Adams-Watters >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Felix Fr?hlich >>> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am >>> Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS >>> >>> >>> Dear SeqFans, >>> >>> as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the >>> addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found >> regarding >>> that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in >>> the OEIS Wiki. See >>> https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and >>> https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and >> the >>> corresponding talk pages. >>> >>> Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific >>> keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The >> addition >>> of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For >>> example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword >> 'prim' >>> that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two >>> obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 >>> or A000043. >>> >>> As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS >> database, I >>> would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the >>> OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like >>> running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires >>> some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I >>> do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who >>> maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be >>> desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding >> which >>> keywords would be useful. >>> >>> What do others think? >>> >>> Best regards >>> >>> Felix Fr?hlich >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Sat Feb 21 08:33:05 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 02:33:05 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> I don't know what you mean by categories. Is there a reference to this in the Wiki? Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Charles Greathouse To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 1:48 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily > rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding > "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. > Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be implemented? > IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < > franktaw at netscape.net> > wrote: > > > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords > > available can't be very difficult. > > > > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where it > > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you might > think > > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process could be > > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but there are > > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member comes > quite > > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having very > > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those sequences > > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences > depend > > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get anywhere > > close to being right. > > > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Felix Fr?hlich > > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am > > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS > > > > > > Dear SeqFans, > > > > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the > > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found > regarding > > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles Greathouse in > > the OEIS Wiki. See > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and > > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table and > the > > corresponding talk pages. > > > > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via specific > > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The > addition > > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. For > > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword > 'prim' > > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are prime. Two > > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 > > or A000043. > > > > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS > database, I > > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to the > > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just like > > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it requires > > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the OEIS, I > > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those who > > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step would be > > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions regarding > which > > keywords would be useful. > > > > What do others think? > > > > Best regards > > > > Felix Fr?hlich > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From felix.froe at googlemail.com Sat Feb 21 09:08:53 2015 From: felix.froe at googlemail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Felix_Fr=C3=B6hlich?=) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 09:08:53 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> References: <8D21B4852507389-23D4-8F917@webmail-vm077.sysops.aol.com> <8D21BBFC3FD21B5-1B58-8EB7A@webmail-va170.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: I don't think there is a reference in the OEIS wiki, but for a general overview of what I believe Neil is referring to above, see http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help:Categories. Felix 2015-02-21 8:33 GMT+01:00 Frank Adams-Watters : > I don't know what you mean by categories. Is there a reference to this in > the Wiki? > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Charles Greathouse > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 1:48 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS > > > I like the idea of new keywords, and I like the idea of categories. > Categories seem like a great solution to many problems because they would > be (by design) extendable. Unfortunately I haven't had time to look though > this part of Russ' code, but I intend to work on this eventually. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 12:24 PM, Neil Sloane wrote: > > Instead of adding more keywords, which are necessarily >> rather limited, Charles and I had discussed adding >> "categories". This may be a better way to proceed. >> Charles, did you think any more about how this idea might be >> > implemented? > >> IIRC, you started to learn Go for that purpose? >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, >> > NJ. > >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 1:18 PM, Frank Adams-Watters < >> franktaw at netscape.net> >> wrote: >> >> > While I'm not familiar with the code being used, making new keywords >> > available can't be very difficult. >> > >> > Getting the keyword assigned to all and only those sequences where >> > it > >> > belongs is another matter, ranging from a bit trickier than you >> > might > >> think >> > to requiring many man-hours. For the example below, the process >> > could be > >> > automated with 99%+ accuracy. I don't know of any off hand, but >> > there are > >> > probably sequences in the database whose first non-prime member >> > comes > >> quite >> > late. The process also has to be able to deal with sequences having >> > very > >> > large terms. One keyword I have considered, "fact", for those >> > sequences > >> > which depend on factorization, in the same way that "base" sequences >> depend >> > on representation as numerals, would be very difficult to get >> > anywhere > >> > close to being right. >> > >> > Franklin T. Adams-Watters >> > >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: Felix Fr?hlich >> > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> > Sent: Fri, Feb 20, 2015 5:10 am >> > Subject: [seqfan] Additional keywords for OEIS >> > >> > >> > Dear SeqFans, >> > >> > as some of you might know, there has been some discussion about the >> > addition of additional keywords to the OEIS. Most of what I found >> regarding >> > that discussion has taken place in the userspace of Charles >> > Greathouse in > >> > the OEIS Wiki. See >> > https://oeis.org/wiki/User_talk:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords and >> > https://oeis.org/wiki/User:Charles_R_Greathouse_IV/Keywords/Table >> > and > >> the >> > corresponding talk pages. >> > >> > Personally I think the possibility to refine OEIS searches via >> > specific > >> > keywords is very useful and I often make use of that feature. The >> addition >> > of new keywords would allow one to get even more relevant results. >> > For > >> > example, Alex Ratushnyak in 2013 suggested the addition of a keyword >> 'prim' >> > that would allow one to find all sequences where all terms are >> > prime. Two > >> > obvious candidates for this keyword would be sequences like A000040 >> > or A000043. >> > >> > As I am not familiar with the technical aspects behind the OEIS >> database, I >> > would like to know how much work it would be to add new keywords to >> > the > >> > OEIS or whether it is technically possible at all (maybe it's just >> > like > >> > running an SQL query to update some database table, or maybe it >> > requires > >> > some complete rewrite of some part of the software underlying the >> > OEIS, I > >> > do not know). If it is technically feasible to do this and if those >> > who > >> > maintain the technical integrity of the OEIS think such a step >> > would be > >> > desirable, then as a next step we could collect suggestions >> > regarding > >> which >> > keywords would be useful. >> > >> > What do others think? >> > >> > Best regards >> > >> > Felix Fr?hlich >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Sat Feb 21 08:19:14 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:19:14 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Generalized Amicable Number Message-ID: <62970.111.188.22.63.1424503154.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Jack Thank you for confirming and computing more terms The first number was the following x = 5^3*11^2*13*131*2^2*3^2 y = 5^3*11^2*13*131*7^2 I am sorry that I wrote a wrong number which I wrote on next line in my note book Could you confirm it? I am now computing the numbers which satisfy the following F(x)=F(y)=m/n*(x*y)^(1/2) Where F(k) is one of the divisor function, both m,n are small Here is an interesting example UnitaryPhi(x)=UnitaryPhi(y)=m/n*(x*y)^(1/2) m/n=3/4 A143649 x = 2^10*5*3^2*11^2 y = 2^10*5*31^2 Is it tenth term? m/n=4/5 x = y = 5 x = 2^2*3^2 y = 5^2 x = 5^4*7*2^10*3^8*11^2*41^2 y = 5^4*7*2^20*3^2*13^2*31^2 Could you confirm them and compute more terms? >(-1)Sigma(x)=(-1)Sigma(y)=8/5*(x*y)^(1/2) >The definition of (-1)Sigma(x) is here A049060 Yasutoshi From charles.greathouse at case.edu Sat Feb 21 16:42:35 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 10:42:35 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> References: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Charles, > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. Nicholson > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the > heuristic? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at > it > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > Related: > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > John W. Nicholson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Sat Feb 21 19:05:18 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 18:05:18 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <1727707214.931670.1424541918410.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> "It's numerically unassailable"? Please, do explain, because I do not see how it is a problem when I used Ramanujan primes, the RPC, and subsutution to limit the size of the gaps. I don't see how this is different for a large maximal gap too. ?John W. Nicholson On Saturday, February 21, 2015 9:43 AM, Charles Greathouse wrote: I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson wrote: > Charles, > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. Nicholson > >? ? ? On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > >? I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on the > heuristic? > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at > it > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > Related: > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > >? John W. Nicholson > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp Sat Feb 21 08:28:54 2015 From: zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp (zbi74583.boat at orange.zero.jp) Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2015 16:28:54 +0900 (JST) Subject: [seqfan] Song of Integer Message-ID: <62987.111.188.22.63.1424503734.squirrel@webmail.zero.jp> Hi,Seqfans Do you know "BABYMETAL" who is a girl matal band? Their album got top of World Albums in Billboard of USA "Megitsune" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cK3NMZAUKGw They also sing a song of "Integer" "4 No Uta" which means "Song of four" Live in London https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chYaUGOTo3I Lylic of the song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASyqaP6dguA Two younger members of them wrote it when they were twelve years old I think they are so smart Yasutoshi From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 00:51:07 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 00:51:07 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Fwd : House of Graphs: a database of interesting graphs -- an update Message-ID: This might be of interest to several seqfan members. With my best regards, Olivier G?rard ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jan Goedgebeur Date: Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 2:46 PM Already in 2012 we announced the website "House of Graphs" -- http://hog.grinvin.org/ . In the meantime several new lists of graphs, "interesting graphs", and invariants have been added to the website. "House of Graphs" hosts lists of graphs (like Snarks, Fullerenes, etc.) and links to other pages with lists of combinatorial structures (like vertex transitive graphs, Ramsey graphs, etc.). But its main feature is a searchable database of graphs that already occurred as counterexamples to conjectures, as extremal graphs or in other contexts. In short we call this the database of "interesting graphs". The key idea is that although already for small vertex numbers extremely many graphs exist, there are some that serve again and again as counterexamples and that a database of these graphs should be established. In this database one can e.g. search for graphs with certain invariant values, graphs with a certain name (e.g. Petersen, Heawood, Balaban, etc.) or graphs that are marked as being interesting for a certain invariant (e.g. marked as being interesting for the girth). These searches can of course also be combined and the results downloaded so that one gets good candidates for testing new conjectures one is working on. Users can also add graphs to the database. If the graphs are not yet in the database, the system computes invariant values for the graphs. So the database can also be used as a repository. If you discover new interesting graphs, you can make them available to other users by submitting them to the database together with a text identifier (e.g. counterexample_this_conjecture). Then other scientists can find and download the graph from "House of Graphs". More information on "House of Graphs" and its functionalities is given in: Discrete Applied Mathematics, Volume 161, Issues 1-2, Jan. 2013, pages 311-314 Available online: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2012.07.018 and http://arxiv.org/abs/1204.3549 while "House of Graphs" can be accessed at: http://hog.grinvin.org/ Gunnar Brinkmann, Kris Coolsaet, Jan Goedgebeur and Hadrien Melot -- Jan Goedgebeur Applied Mathematics and Computer Science Ghent University Krijgslaan 281 - S9 B - 9000 Ghent From pew at worldwidemann.com Sun Feb 22 22:29:17 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 22:29:17 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Message-ID: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> I have been experimenting with a purely algorithmic (brute force) approach to the question "which formula generates this number sequence?", designed to complement existing systems based on database lookups (OEIS) and pattern transforms (Mathematica). The system developed for that purpose is now available, both as a library/executable JAR (https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer) and as a simple (beta stage) web service (http://www.sequenceboss.org/). At its core, Sequencer is a tree-based expression generator plus a hybrid search engine combining a fast numerical pre-checker with a symbolic verifier. Because the numerical checker is so fast, expressions of relatively high complexity (7-8 nodes) can be exhaustively searched in minutes on commodity hardware to check whether they generate the given numbers. Despite its early stage of development, Sequencer can already identify (i.e. find a closed form expression for) many sequences that OEIS, Superseeker and Mathematica can not. It is particularly strong at finding complex, nonlinear or inhomogeneous recurrence relations like a(1) = 1 a(2) = 1 a(3) = 1 a(n) = a(n-2)^2+a(n-1)+a(n-3) for n >= 4 when provided the sequence 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 15, 43, 273 something which none of the above mentioned systems is currently able to do. But the system can also quickly find unusual, relatively simple general terms for sequences like 11, 47, 123, 214, 257 for which Sequencer returns a(n) = n + Binomial(10,n) in less than one second (http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C+47%2C+123% 2C+214%2C+257). By leveraging the Symja computer algebra system, Sequencer supports fully symbolic input and output and is not limited to integer sequences. For example, running the program on the input 0, 1/2, sqrt(3)/2, 1 produces (search depth 6) the formula a(n) = Sin(1/6*Pi*(n-1)) I invite you to give the Sequencer/SequenceBoss system a try. If you are familiar with Scala, you will find it easy to modify the FormulaGenerator class to expand the range of expressions that can be searched beyond what the command line switches already offer. Next in line I plan to add multicore support based on Scala Actors which should almost multiply the current search performance by the number of available CPU cores as the search is efficiently parallelizable. Bug reports and code contributions are very welcome, ideally on GitHub. Best regards Philipp Emanuel Weidmann From akourbatov at gmail.com Sun Feb 22 23:04:10 2015 From: akourbatov at gmail.com (Alexei Kourbatov) Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2015 14:04:10 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: <422736994.5533162.1424480286641.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: In Cramer's model, I feel that both statements are true with probability 1. In the original proof, the last sentence "So the gap g_y ..." apparently does not follow from the preceding statements (as far as I can tell). To illustrate my point: a-c < 2(b-d) does not follow from { a < 2b and c < 2d} - but it would follow e.g. from { a < 2b and c >= 2d} On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically > unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, > you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and > even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is > checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. > > It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It > also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Charles, > > > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. > Nicholson > > > > On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > > I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on > the > > heuristic? > > > > Charles Greathouse > > Analyst/Programmer > > Case Western Reserve University > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson < > reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS. Can someone look at > > it > > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > > > Related: > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > John W. Nicholson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Mon Feb 23 11:42:45 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:42:45 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: Dear Philipp Emmanuel, your program Sequencer is really interesting. In spirit, one can say it is close to Robert Munafo's RIES http://mrob.com/pub/ries/index.html but for integer sequences It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without formula. I have a first candidate (which is inspired by the same kind of brute force exploration) https://oeis.org/A229673 "The number of subsets of nonzero integers of cardinality n, produced as the steps in a computation starting with 1 and using the operations of multiplication, addition, or subtraction." 1, 3, 15, 126, 1667, 31966, 828678, 27535826, 1128945382, ... Best regards, Olivier On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 10:29 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > I have been experimenting with a purely algorithmic (brute force) > approach to the question "which formula generates this number > sequence?", designed to complement existing systems based on database > lookups (OEIS) and pattern transforms (Mathematica). > > Mathematica has pattern transforms as part of its language but its sequence formula recognition commands are based on mathematical theories : - holonomic functions, linear algebra, z-transforms, difference equations, continuous fractions, pade approximants, ... > The system developed for that purpose is now available, both as a > library/executable JAR (https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer) and as a > simple (beta stage) web service (http://www.sequenceboss.org/). > > At its core, Sequencer is a tree-based expression generator plus a > hybrid search engine combining a fast numerical pre-checker with a > symbolic verifier. Because the numerical checker is so fast, expressions > of relatively high complexity (7-8 nodes) can be exhaustively searched > in minutes on commodity hardware to check whether they generate the > given numbers. > > Despite its early stage of development, Sequencer can already identify > (i.e. find a closed form expression for) many sequences that OEIS, > Superseeker and Mathematica can not. It is particularly strong at > finding complex, nonlinear or inhomogeneous recurrence relations like > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(3) = 1 > a(n) = a(n-2)^2+a(n-1)+a(n-3) for n >= 4 > > when provided the sequence > > 1, 1, 1, 3, 5, 15, 43, 273 > > something which none of the above mentioned systems is currently able to > do. But the system can also quickly find unusual, relatively simple > general terms for sequences like > > 11, 47, 123, 214, 257 > > for which Sequencer returns > > a(n) = n + Binomial(10,n) > > in less than one second (http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C+47%2C+123% > 2C+214%2C+257). > > By leveraging the Symja computer algebra system, Sequencer supports > fully symbolic input and output and is not limited to integer sequences. > For example, running the program on the input > > 0, 1/2, sqrt(3)/2, 1 > > produces (search depth 6) the formula > > a(n) = Sin(1/6*Pi*(n-1)) > > > I invite you to give the Sequencer/SequenceBoss system a try. If you are > familiar with Scala, you will find it easy to modify the > FormulaGenerator class to expand the range of expressions that can be > searched beyond what the command line switches already offer. Next in > line I plan to add multicore support based on Scala Actors which should > almost multiply the current search performance by the number of > available CPU cores as the search is efficiently parallelizable. Bug > reports and code contributions are very welcome, ideally on GitHub. > > Best regards > > Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > From wclark at mail.usf.edu Mon Feb 23 17:02:37 2015 From: wclark at mail.usf.edu (W. Edwin Clark) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 11:02:37 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard wrote: > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without > formula. > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n :-) Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian groups of order n. From mlb at well.com Mon Feb 23 22:02:26 2015 From: mlb at well.com (Marc LeBrun) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 13:02:26 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: Message-ID: It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its mathematical content. Features such as ad hoc keywords or categories are innocuous insofar as they go, and useful within their scope, but they seem pretty primitive compared to the current state-of-the-art in data modeling and knowledge engineering. I recommend that anyone with an interest in these proposals with an eye towards the future of the OEIS should look into things like the semantic web to get a more up-to-date appreciation for where such technologies are going (indeed, have already gone). For example a keyword can be viewed as metadata that makes an assertion *about a sequence*. But instead of having "?" variants of every keyword one can instead have a general kind of "meta" assertion *about an assertion* that says it is conjectural. And so on for many other applications (eg assertions for provenance attribution, processing inferential consequences of keywords such as prim==>nonn, etc etc). The point is that there already exist sophisticated and elegant data languages for representing this kind of information. The OEIS should consider adopting these approaches, rather than reinventing the wheel. But heck, even if we just go ahead and kludge stuff up the good news is that the total amount of actual data in the OEIS is truly miniscule by modern standards. This relative footprint will continue to shrink, at least while the primary source of content continues to be entries hand-crafted by human beings. This means that building and maintaining useful informational superstructures around the OEIS will lie well within the scope of contemporary tools and techniques, and they can flourish off-site if not on. With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and its consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of grad students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS and help us cook up something more au courant? From mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de Mon Feb 23 23:21:39 2015 From: mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de (Richard J. Mathar) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:21:39 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Q on g.f. A138164 Message-ID: <20150223222139.GA13412@mathar.mpia-hd.mpg.de> Is the generating function in http://oeis.org/A138164 correct? The Maple implementation vx := 2/sqrt(3)*sin(sin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) ; A138164 := proc(n) 1/(1-vx-vx^2) ; coeftayl(%,x=0,n) ; end proc: seq(%(n),n=0..13) ; generates fractions from the power(x^3) on. From pauldhanna at juno.com Tue Feb 24 00:41:24 2015 From: pauldhanna at juno.com (Paul D Hanna) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:41:24 GMT Subject: [seqfan] Re: Q on g.f. A138164 Message-ID: <20150223.184124.23772.0@webmail01.dca.untd.com> Richard, Good catch. The formula should read: "G.f.: 1/(1-v-v^2) where v=(2/sqrt(3))*sin(arcsin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) is the series reversion of x*(1-x^2); ..." (i.e., the second 'sin' should be 'arcsin') and a reference to A001764 would be in order since v = Sum_{n>=1} A001764(n-1)*x^(2*n-1). Paul ---------- Original Message ---------- From: "Richard J. Mathar" To: seqfan at seqfan.eu Subject: [seqfan] Q on g.f. A138164 Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 23:21:39 +0100 Is the generating function in http://oeis.org/A138164 correct? The Maple implementation vx := 2/sqrt(3)*sin(sin(x*3*sqrt(3)/2)/3) ; A138164 := proc(n) 1/(1-vx-vx^2) ; coeftayl(%,x=0,n) ; end proc: seq(%(n),n=0..13) ; generates fractions from the power(x^3) on. _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From arndt at jjj.de Tue Feb 24 08:56:40 2015 From: arndt at jjj.de (Joerg Arndt) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:56:40 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> * Marc LeBrun [Feb 24. 2015 08:40]: > It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same > level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its > mathematical content. > > [...] > > With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and its > consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of grad > students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS > and help us cook up something more au courant? > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ I do agree with all you are saying. There are plans for a "big data" project involving the OEIS, this is related to the Zentralblatt-Math project that will hopefully start soon-ish. A student of mine is just finishing his thesis about parsing formulas in the OEIS for the Zentralblatt. Of course it all depends on the funding. Best regards, jj From njasloane at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 13:37:00 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 07:37:00 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Additional keywords for OEIS In-Reply-To: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> References: <20150224075640.GA1671@jjj.de> Message-ID: > Of course it all depends on the funding. If this becomes a problem, there is always the possibility that the OEIS Foundation could try to raise some money to help with the project. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 2:56 AM, Joerg Arndt wrote: > * Marc LeBrun [Feb 24. 2015 08:40]: > > It is my fond and enduring hope that the OEIS will someday enjoy the same > > level of sophistication in its data science content as it does in its > > mathematical content. > > > > [...] > > > > With the current commercial interest around "big data" in many forms and > its > > consequent stimulation of academia, maybe we could get, say, a coven of > grad > > students to take a hands-on interest in this important aspect of the OEIS > > and help us cook up something more au courant? > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > I do agree with all you are saying. > > There are plans for a "big data" project involving the OEIS, this is > related to the Zentralblatt-Math project that will hopefully start > soon-ish. A student of mine is just finishing his thesis about parsing > formulas in the OEIS for the Zentralblatt. > > Of course it all depends on the funding. > > Best regards, jj > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com Mon Feb 23 05:04:01 2015 From: reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com (John W. Nicholson) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 04:04:01 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Is there any problems with this proof? In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <370292300.7299941.1424664241563.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Alexei Kourbatov, First of all thanks for being clear with your concerns. Second, do remember the note: "All gaps g_i = p_{i+1} ? p_i, where p_i < p_y are g_i <= G_n(x)." Maybe I need to add the following: Under the assumption that the smaller gap is p_{y-b+1} - p_{y-b} = G_n(x), we see that the larger gap is p_{y+1} - p_y <= 2*G_n(x). Is that OK??John W. Nicholson On Sunday, February 22, 2015 5:17 PM, Alexei Kourbatov wrote: In Cramer's model, I feel that both statements are true with probability 1. In the original proof, the last sentence "So the gap g_y ..." apparently does not follow from the preceding statements (as far as I can tell). To illustrate my point: a-c < 2(b-d) does not follow from { a < 2b and c < 2d} - but it would follow e.g. from { a < 2b and c >= 2d} On Sat, Feb 21, 2015 at 7:42 AM, Charles Greathouse < charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > I don't know what to think of the first question. It's numerically > unassailable -- to build up evidence in the primes, one way or another, > you'd probably need to get a lot closer to a googolplex than a googol, and > even 10^20 is out of reach at the moment. The only recourse I see is > checking whether it holds in the Cramer model, flawed as it is. > > It wouldn't surprise me at all if ratios > 2 occurred infinitely often. It > also wouldn't surprise me if it happened only finitely often. > > Charles Greathouse > Analyst/Programmer > Case Western Reserve University > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 7:58 PM, John W. Nicholson > > wrote: > > > Charles, > > > > Does that mean that the proof with first question, that the ratio <=2, is > > correct and with out problems so that you are now looking at the second > > question with the limit of the ratio going to infinity =1? John W. > Nicholson > > > >? ? ? On Friday, February 20, 2015 4:24 PM, Charles Greathouse < > > charles.greathouse at case.edu> wrote: > > > > > > > >? I suspect that there is some k > 1 such that the ratio is greater than k > > infinitely often. Is anyone interested in crunching the numbers here on > the > > heuristic? > > > > Charles Greathouse > > Analyst/Programmer > > Case Western Reserve University > > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2015 at 4:53 AM, John W. Nicholson < > reddwarf2956 at yahoo.com > > > > > wrote: > > > > > Below is a proof based on A005250(n ) of the OEIS.? Can someone look at > > it > > > and tell me if it true? > > > > > > > > > http://math.stackexchange.com/questions/1155523/is-frac-textnext-maximal-textmaximal-2-true > > > If it is true, an edit of A005250 comments is needed. > > > > > > Related: > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/831768/under-assumption-that-fracm-n1m-n-le-2-what-is-true?lq=1 > > > > > > > > > https://math.stackexchange.com/questions/793555/is-there-a-conjecture-with-maximal-prime-gaps?lq=1 > > > > > > > > >? John W. Nicholson > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From pew at worldwidemann.com Mon Feb 23 19:21:07 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, "slightly exotic" recurrence relation a(1) = 1 a(2) = 1 a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 ;) In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could then be investigated rigorously. For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting problems of some kind. Best regards Philipp On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard > wrote: > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences without > > formula. > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n :-) > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian groups > of order n. > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From njasloane at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 14:17:28 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 08:17:28 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like this would definitely be worth doing. By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no formula or recurrence! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > ;) > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > then be investigated rigorously. > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > problems of some kind. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > without > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > :-) > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > groups > > of order n. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From benoit.jubin at gmail.com Tue Feb 24 17:49:38 2015 From: benoit.jubin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Jubin?=) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 17:49:38 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 Message-ID: Dear seqfans, Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on an (n,n) chessboard. By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known lower bound from a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 to a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the following description. The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x References: Message-ID: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, I get a maximum of 80, not 84. -----Original Message----- From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t Jubin Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 Dear seqfans, Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on an (n,n) chessboard. By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known lower bound from a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 to a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the following description. The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Message-ID: Dear Rob, I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): ------------------------ ......WWWWWW............ ......WWWWWW...........W ......WWWWWW..........WW ......WWWWWW.........WWW ......WWWWWW........WWWW ......WWWWW........WWWWW .......WWW........WWWWWW ........W.........WWWWWW ..................WWWWWW ..................WWWWW. ..................WWWW.. ..................WWW... ....BB.................. ...BBB.................. ..BBBB.................. .BBBBB.................. BBBBBB..........B....... BBBBBB.........BBB...... BBBBBB........BBBB...... BBBBB........BBBBB...... BBBB........BBBBBB...... BBB.........BBBBBB...... BB..........BBBBBB...... B...........BBBBBB...... ------------------------ On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: > Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, > I get a maximum of 80, not 84. > > -----Original Message----- > From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t > Jubin > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM > To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list > Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 > > Dear seqfans, > > Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on > an (n,n) chessboard. > > By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known > lower bound from > a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 > to > a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. > I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's say > a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the > coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the > following description. > > The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by x,y > in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are in > the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you can > guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the > "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the > "Board 4" example of the webpage). > > Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically > (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. > Anyone to help fill the gap? > > Best, > Benoit > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From Eric.Angelini at kntv.be Tue Feb 24 19:13:22 2015 From: Eric.Angelini at kntv.be (Eric Angelini) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:13:22 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Prime by concatenation Message-ID: <8B00BFBA136BAB43AD27F9EDC3758F03BD24CA5286@KNTVSRV01.kntv.local> Hello Seqfans, Concatenate any two digits of S separated by a comma: the resulting 2-digit number is prime. If we accept that [70,2] produces the prime "2" (concatenation of 0 and 2), then S is a permutation of {the positive integers} - {4,6,8,9}: S = 1,3,7,9,70,2,30,5,31,10,20,21,11,12,32,33,13,14,15,... As usual, S was extended with the smallest integer not yet present in S and not leading to a contradiction. Best, ?. From pew at worldwidemann.com Tue Feb 24 21:37:36 2015 From: pew at worldwidemann.com (Philipp Emanuel Weidmann) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 21:37:36 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM library. As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. Best regards Philipp On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > this would definitely be worth doing. > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > formula or recurrence! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > a(1) = 1 > > a(2) = 1 > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > ;) > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > problems of some kind. > > > > Best regards > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > without > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > > :-) > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > groups > > > of order n. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From franktaw at netscape.net Wed Feb 25 00:17:03 2015 From: franktaw at netscape.net (Frank Adams-Watters) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 18:17:03 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> If you search in the native format for sequences without "%F" lines, you will find the sequences with no formulas present at all. This still leaves a larger number of sequences for which some formula has been added, but not a formula specifically to define the sequence. Franklin T. Adams-Watters -----Original Message----- From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann To: seqfan Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 5:09 pm Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM library. As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. Best regards Philipp On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > this would definitely be worth doing. > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > formula or recurrence! > > Best regards > Neil > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > a(1) = 1 > > a(2) = 1 > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > ;) > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > problems of some kind. > > > > Best regards > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > without > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of order n > > :-) > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > groups > > > of order n. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ _______________________________________________ Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From 2stepan at rambler.ru Tue Feb 24 21:41:21 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:41:21 +0300 Subject: [seqfan] magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans. Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that k^n + n is prime: 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, 375, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, 0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... Thanks, JSG From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 00:26:31 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 00:26:31 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: Dear Youri, If you are on seqfan, why don't use the OEIS first to gain more knowledge ? Look at http://oeis.org/A072883 and you will have the explanation why a(27) and a(64) have no solutions. A good rule to lookup something in the OEIS is : never assume that your own conventions about initial terms, offset, meaning of 0 and 1 have been chosen by everyone. Olivier PS: please next time, find a more appropriate title for your mail. What you are discussing is not the magma calculator but a particular computation you did with it. On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 9:41 PM, ???? ????????? <2stepan at rambler.ru> wrote: > > Dear SeqFans. > Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that > k^n + n is prime: > 1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, > 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, 375, > 2, 1, > 0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, > 0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... > > Thanks, JSG > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From israel at math.ubc.ca Wed Feb 25 00:30:45 2015 From: israel at math.ubc.ca (israel at math.ubc.ca) Date: 24 Feb 2015 15:30:45 -0800 Subject: [seqfan] Re: magma calculator In-Reply-To: <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424810477.253256.19611.44231@mail.rambler.ru> <1424810481.1426.15492.48037@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: x^27 + 27 is divisible by x^9 + 3, x^64 + 64 is divisible by x^32-4*x^16+8. Cheers, Robert On Feb 24 2015, ???? ????????? wrote: > >Dear SeqFans. > > Magma calculator: a(27) = ? and a(64) = ? if a(n) = smallest k such that > k^n + n is prime: > >1, 0, 0, 1, 0, 1, 0, 3, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 417, 2, 1, 0, 1, 0, 81, > > 76, 1, 0, 55, 28, 15, (a(27) = ?), 1, 0, 1, 0, 117, 230, 3, 12, 1, 0, > 375, 2, 1, > >0, 1, 0, 25, 218, 1, 0, 7, 100, 993, 28, 1, 0, 13, 252, 183, 226, 1, 0, 1, > >0, 777, 1294, (a(64) = ?), 1806, ... > >Thanks, JSG > >_______________________________________________ > >Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > From charles.greathouse at case.edu Wed Feb 25 07:34:47 2015 From: charles.greathouse at case.edu (Charles Greathouse) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 01:34:47 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> Message-ID: There are about 100,000 sequences with %F lines and about 150,000 without. It's probably worthwhile to run it on all the sequences in oeis.org/stripped.gz. I think adding the Sequencer to the Superseeker would be great -- at least through depth 5, which takes a second or two, and possibly to depth 6 depending on our free processor time (in my experiments this takes a few minutes). I imagine the easiest way would be to run it as a black box, dumping the result to a temp file? Yangchen Pan and Max Alekseyev were working on a project looking for relations between OEIS sequences, they may also have useful information. Charles Greathouse Analyst/Programmer Case Western Reserve University On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API > (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration > should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM > library. > > As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a > mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of > a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance > improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then > Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than > 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which > would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, > dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of > OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would > also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some > of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > > On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: > > What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds like > > this would definitely be worth doing. > > > > By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but no > > formula or recurrence! > > > > Best regards > > Neil > > > > Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. > > 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. > > Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. > > Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com > > Email: njasloane at gmail.com > > > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < > > pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: > > > > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, > umm, > > > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > > > > > a(1) = 1 > > > a(2) = 1 > > > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > > > > > ;) > > > > > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > > > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > > > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > > > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > > > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > > > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > > > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which > could > > > then be investigated rigorously. > > > > > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > > > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > > > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > > > problems of some kind. > > > > > > Best regards > > > Philipp > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < > > > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> > > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other sequences > > > without > > > > > formula. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of > order n > > > :-) > > > > > > > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian > > > groups > > > > of order n. > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From antti.karttunen at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 09:12:54 2015 From: antti.karttunen at gmail.com (Antti Karttunen) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 10:12:54 +0200 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification Message-ID: On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, wrote: > Message: 12 > Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 > From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence > identification > Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel at worldwidemann.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" > > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation > > a(1) = 1 > a(2) = 1 > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 > > ;) > > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could > then be investigated rigorously. > > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting > problems of some kind. Kudos for interesting development! Yes, especially number theoretic primitives would be welcome, because for now your system does not exactly shine on any such sequences. For example, although it correctly identifies factorials: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C2%2C6%2C24%2C120%2C720%2C5040 then for primorials https://oeis.org/A002110 it remains baffled: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+2%2C+6%2C+30%2C+210%2C+2310%2C+30030%2C+510510%2C+9699690 Neither any success with the squares of primes: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=4%2C+9%2C+25%2C+49%2C+121%2C+169%2C+289 (Not to speak about any of A000005, A000010 or A000203). Now, when testing the third row of "Ludic array" https://oeis.org/A255127 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=5%2C+19%2C+35%2C+49%2C+65%2C+79%2C+95%2C+109%2C+125%2C+139%2C+155%2C+169 the SequenceBoss, guesses a working recurrence for it: a_1 = 5, a_2 = 19, a3 = 35, a_n = a_{n-2} - a_{n-3} + a_{n-1} for n >= 4 (This mirrors the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) - a(n-3), n>=4 given for A007310 by Roger Bagula) No such success with the later rows of A255127 though: http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=7%2C+31%2C+59%2C+85%2C+113%2C+137%2C+163%2C+191%2C+217%2C+241 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C++55%2C+103%2C+151%2C+203%2C+251%2C++299%2C++343%2C++391%2C++443 (although when looking at their graphs, they all look awfully linear...) Cheers, Antti > > Best regards > Philipp > From antti.karttunen at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 10:24:23 2015 From: antti.karttunen at gmail.com (Antti Karttunen) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 11:24:23 +0200 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Neither any success with A000265 http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+1%2C+3%2C+1%2C+5%2C+3%2C+7%2C+1%2C+9%2C+5%2C+11%2C+3%2C+13%2C+7%2C+15%2C+1%2C+17 (or the associated A003602) Nor with sequences like: https://oeis.org/A126760 or: https://oeis.org/A254104 (nor its inverse A254103). These kinds of sequences are very common in OEIS, where one doesn't recurse with some constant offset decremented from n (as in a(n-1) + a(n-2)) but with n/2 (if n is even) and say, with (n-1)/2 if n is odd. Maybe also some "p-adic primitives" would be good, e.g. applying A007814 ? Best, Antti On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 10:12 AM, Antti Karttunen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 3:06 PM, wrote: > >> Message: 12 >> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 19:21:07 +0100 >> From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann >> To: seqfan at list.seqfan.eu >> Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence >> identification >> Message-ID: <1424715667.2631.30.camel at worldwidemann.com> >> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" >> >> Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, umm, >> "slightly exotic" recurrence relation >> >> a(1) = 1 >> a(2) = 1 >> a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 >> >> ;) >> >> In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any >> insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for centuries >> with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run the >> system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which have >> no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to query >> those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return a >> hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which could >> then be investigated rigorously. >> >> For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more combinatorial >> and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever I >> randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be counting >> problems of some kind. > > Kudos for interesting development! > > Yes, especially number theoretic primitives would be welcome, because > for now your system does not exactly shine on any such sequences. For > example, although it correctly identifies factorials: > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C2%2C6%2C24%2C120%2C720%2C5040 > > then for primorials https://oeis.org/A002110 it remains baffled: > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=1%2C+2%2C+6%2C+30%2C+210%2C+2310%2C+30030%2C+510510%2C+9699690 > > Neither any success with the squares of primes: > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=4%2C+9%2C+25%2C+49%2C+121%2C+169%2C+289 > > (Not to speak about any of A000005, A000010 or A000203). > > Now, when testing the third row of "Ludic array" > https://oeis.org/A255127 > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=5%2C+19%2C+35%2C+49%2C+65%2C+79%2C+95%2C+109%2C+125%2C+139%2C+155%2C+169 > > the SequenceBoss, guesses a working recurrence for it: > > a_1 = 5, a_2 = 19, a3 = 35, a_n = a_{n-2} - a_{n-3} + a_{n-1} for n >= 4 > > (This mirrors the recurrence a(n) = a(n-1) + a(n-2) - a(n-3), n>=4 > given for A007310 by Roger Bagula) > > > No such success with the later rows of A255127 though: > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=7%2C+31%2C+59%2C+85%2C+113%2C+137%2C+163%2C+191%2C+217%2C+241 > > http://www.sequenceboss.org/?q=11%2C++55%2C+103%2C+151%2C+203%2C+251%2C++299%2C++343%2C++391%2C++443 > > (although when looking at their graphs, they all look awfully linear...) > > > Cheers, > > Antti > >> >> Best regards >> Philipp >> From apovolot at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 01:32:49 2015 From: apovolot at gmail.com (apovolot at gmail.com) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 19:32:49 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification In-Reply-To: <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> References: <1424640557.3507.31.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424715667.2631.30.camel@worldwidemann.com> <1424810256.2771.27.camel@worldwidemann.com> <8D21E9F22268966-720-A8A7C@webmail-vm046.sysops.aol.com> Message-ID: <243EA8F9-2612-43D6-AFAF-2E42A32F53CA@gmail.com> Could usage of the prefix formula: be somehow employed to the sequences with no formulas present at all ? > On Feb 24, 2015, at 6:17 PM, Frank Adams-Watters wrote: > > If you search in the native format for sequences without "%F" lines, you will find the sequences with no formulas present at all. This still leaves a larger number of sequences for which some formula has been added, but not a formula specifically to define the sequence. > > Franklin T. Adams-Watters > > -----Original Message----- > From: Philipp Emanuel Weidmann > To: seqfan > Sent: Tue, Feb 24, 2015 5:09 pm > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Purely algorithmic number sequence identification > > > Sounds good, how would that work? Sequencer already has a public API > (documented at https://github.com/p-e-w/sequencer#api) so integration > should be easy as long as Superseeker has a way to interface with a JVM > library. > > As for A122536, nothing so far I'm afraid. I really would like to run a > mass search on sequences without formulas though. Do you perhaps know of > a way to find just those on OEIS? Soon the batch of performance > improvements I'm currently working on will be finished, and then > Sequencer should be able to search all depth 6 formulas for more than > 1000 Sequences per day. Also, a batch mode could be implemented, which > would allow the program to process a large number of sequences at once, > dramatically improving performance for this use case. Indeed, all of > OEIS could be checked this way in about a week probably ? which would > also be interesting for sequences that already *have* formulas, as some > of them may possess interesting alternative forms, or be incorrect. > > Best regards > Philipp > > > > > >> On Tue, 2015-02-24 at 08:17 -0500, Neil Sloane wrote: >> What do you think of adding your program to Superseeker? It sounds > like >> this would definitely be worth doing. >> >> By the way, can you do anything with A122536? We have 200 terms, but > no >> formula or recurrence! >> >> Best regards >> Neil >> >> Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. >> 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. >> Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, > NJ. >> Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com >> Email: njasloane at gmail.com >> >> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:21 PM, Philipp Emanuel Weidmann < >> pew at worldwidemann.com> wrote: >> >> > Well, it turns out the first eight elements of A000001 satisfy the, > umm, >> > "slightly exotic" recurrence relation >> > >> > a(1) = 1 >> > a(2) = 1 >> > a(n) = Floor(a(n-2)*(2-Sin(2^n))) for n >= 3 >> > >> > ;) >> > >> > In earnest, while I doubt that brute forcing formulas will bring any >> > insight into sequences that have baffled mathematicians for > centuries >> > with their irregularity, what might indeed be interesting is to run > the >> > system not on one sequence, but on tens of thousands, all of which > have >> > no closed-form expression associated with them (is there a way to > query >> > those on OEIS?). In a matter of days, Sequencer would likely return > a >> > hundred or so closed forms, some of which may prove correct, which > could >> > then be investigated rigorously. >> > >> > For such a search, I should probably also add a lot more > combinatorial >> > and number theoretic primitives to the formula generator ? whenever > I >> > randomly browse around OEIS, most of the sequences seem to be > counting >> > problems of some kind. >> > >> > Best regards >> > Philipp >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > On Mon, 2015-02-23 at 11:02 -0500, W. Edwin Clark wrote: >> > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 5:42 AM, Olivier Gerard < >> > olivier.gerard at gmail.com> >> > > wrote: >> > > >> > > > >> > > > It would be nice to test it on "hard" sequences and other > sequences >> > without >> > > > formula. >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > For example: http://oeis.org/A000001, the number of groups of > order n >> > :-) >> > > >> > > Or perhaps easier: http://oeis.org/A000688, the number of abelian >> > groups >> > > of order n. >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > >> > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > >> > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ From rselcoe at entouchonline.net Wed Feb 25 06:35:48 2015 From: rselcoe at entouchonline.net (Bob Selcoe) Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2015 23:35:48 -0600 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 In-Reply-To: References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> Message-ID: <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> Hi Benoit, Excellent! This certainly is an improvement. But I'm having a little difficulty following how you've obtained the upper and lower bounds, as well as your description of coordinates. So for my n=24 a(n)=83 board, wouldn't you also say the queens of one color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x> I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the "opposite" >> boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the "Board 4" >> example of the webpage). I'm not sure what you "equalized" to gain the improvement. But still, there is definite improvement. I probably won't have time to look into a structural pattern for n = 4m for several days; my guess is one exists based on your approach, which will improve upon mine. Will you have a chance to see if such a pattern exists? Best Wishes, Bob Selcoe -------------------------------------------------- From: "Beno?t Jubin" Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:25 AM To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 > Dear Rob, > I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as > for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the > result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I > made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) > y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): > > ------------------------ > > ......WWWWWW............ > > ......WWWWWW...........W > > ......WWWWWW..........WW > > ......WWWWWW.........WWW > > ......WWWWWW........WWWW > > ......WWWWW........WWWWW > > .......WWW........WWWWWW > > ........W.........WWWWWW > > ..................WWWWWW > > ..................WWWWW. > > ..................WWWW.. > > ..................WWW... > > ....BB.................. > > ...BBB.................. > > ..BBBB.................. > > .BBBBB.................. > > BBBBBB..........B....... > > BBBBBB.........BBB...... > > BBBBBB........BBBB...... > > BBBBB........BBBBB...... > > BBBB........BBBBBB...... > > BBB.........BBBBBB...... > > BB..........BBBBBB...... > > B...........BBBBBB...... > > ------------------------ > > > > On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: > >> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, >> I get a maximum of 80, not 84. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t >> Jubin >> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM >> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >> Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 >> >> Dear seqfans, >> >> Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on >> an (n,n) chessboard. >> >> By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known >> lower bound from >> a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 >> to >> a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. >> I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's >> say >> a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the >> coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the >> following description. >> >> The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by >> x,y >> in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are >> in >> the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x> the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you >> can >> guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the >> "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the >> "Board 4" example of the webpage). >> >> Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically >> (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. >> Anyone to help fill the gap? >> >> Best, >> Benoit >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From benoit.jubin at gmail.com Wed Feb 25 23:10:14 2015 From: benoit.jubin at gmail.com (=?UTF-8?Q?Beno=C3=AEt_Jubin?=) Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2015 23:10:14 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 In-Reply-To: <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> References: <4e04fd9f4d874f3f82f0107dac7a2655@MERCMBX40D.na.SAS.com> <0D1F3B422EDF45F3B72AA633DCB86882@OwnerPC> Message-ID: Dear Rob, I think that you interpret the coordinates correctly. My configuration is only a slight modification of yours, but not exactly the same, as you can see in my example for n=24 (in a previous email of this conversation). Also, the bound you give on the webpage, namely (after simplification), a(4m) >= floor( (9/4)*m^2 + m/2 - 3/4 ) made me think that your configuration is given as follows (for n=4m): One decomposes the chessboard into 16 smaller (m,m) chessboards as follows: .A.B .C.D W.X. Y.Z. where the dots are empty chessboards and A, B, C, D contain the queens of one color and W, X, Y, Z contain the queens of the other color. Borrowing to the language of matrices, the occupied squares are as follows: A: all squares, B: strict lower-right half, C: strict upper quarter, that is, intersection of the strict upper-left half and the strict upper-right half, D: upper-left half plus the first subdiagonal, W: lower-right half, X: intersection of the strict lower-right half minus the first subdiagonal and the lower-left half, Y: upper-left half, Z: all squares minus the upper-left one. What I meant by "equalizing the opposite boundaries" is this: in the picture ....|....|......../ ....|....|......./. ....|....|....../.. ....|.../....../... ....|../....../.... .....\/.......|.... ..............|.... ..............|.../ ..............|../. ..--+.........+--.. ./..|.............. /...|.............. ....|.............. ....|......./\..... ..../....../..|.... .../....../...|.... ../......|....|.... ./.......|....|.... /........|....|.... each of the lines x=1/4, x=1/2, x=3/4, y=1/2, y=x, y=x+1/3, y=x-1/3,y=1-x borders a white region and a black region, and the length during which it borders each is equal. This is how I optimized your solution: by translating these lines, one adds to the army of one color while removing from the other color (compensate this on the other pair of regions, to still have equally sized armies), so one deduces that for the optimal configuration of this sort, "opposite boundaries" must have same length. I am mainly interested in asymptotics, where it does not matter whether n is divisible by 4 or not. But for a given n, not necessarily divisible by 4, I would first draw these regions, and for any given square, if more than half of it is within the region, I would put a queen. For the 50%-squares, put queens for one out of the two regions. Finally (possibly not needed), give or take a few queens on the boundaries to get an admissible configuration. Best, Beno?t On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:35 AM, Bob Selcoe wrote: > Hi Benoit, > > Excellent! This certainly is an improvement. > > But I'm having a little difficulty following how you've obtained the upper > and lower bounds, as well as your description of coordinates. > > So for my n=24 a(n)=83 board, wouldn't you also say the queens of one > color are in the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x and 1/2 obtained by central symmetry (or at least something approximating central > symmetry)??? > > So I don't see how the definitions between your and my configurations > differ; that is, when you say: > > I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the "opposite" >>> boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the "Board 4" >>> example of the webpage). >>> >> > I'm not sure what you "equalized" to gain the improvement. > > But still, there is definite improvement. > > I probably won't have time to look into a structural pattern for n = 4m > for several days; my guess is one exists based on your approach, which will > improve upon mine. Will you have a chance to see if such a pattern exists? > > Best Wishes, > Bob Selcoe > > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Beno?t Jubin" > Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:25 AM > To: "Sequence Fanatics Discussion list" > Subject: [seqfan] Re: Improved lower bound for A250000 > > > Dear Rob, >> I improved by one the final board on the webpage by using the same idea as >> for my asymptotic bound, but you are right that in this specific case, the >> result is not centrally symmetric. From the last example on the webpage, I >> made marginal changes along the diagonals (in the [0,1]^2 coordinates) >> y=x+1/3 (deleted 3 Ws, added 5 Bs) and y=x-1/3 (deleted 4 Bs, added 4Ws): >> >> ------------------------ >> >> ......WWWWWW............ >> >> ......WWWWWW...........W >> >> ......WWWWWW..........WW >> >> ......WWWWWW.........WWW >> >> ......WWWWWW........WWWW >> >> ......WWWWW........WWWWW >> >> .......WWW........WWWWWW >> >> ........W.........WWWWWW >> >> ..................WWWWWW >> >> ..................WWWWW. >> >> ..................WWWW.. >> >> ..................WWW... >> >> ....BB.................. >> >> ...BBB.................. >> >> ..BBBB.................. >> >> .BBBBB.................. >> >> BBBBBB..........B....... >> >> BBBBBB.........BBB...... >> >> BBBBBB........BBBB...... >> >> BBBBB........BBBBB...... >> >> BBBB........BBBBBB...... >> >> BBB.........BBBBBB...... >> >> BB..........BBBBBB...... >> >> B...........BBBBBB...... >> >> ------------------------ >> >> >> >> On Tue, Feb 24, 2015 at 6:13 PM, Rob Pratt wrote: >> >> Please share your n =24 solution. Under the central symmetry constraint, >>> I get a maximum of 80, not 84. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: SeqFan [mailto:seqfan-bounces at list.seqfan.eu] On Behalf Of Beno?t >>> Jubin >>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2015 11:50 AM >>> To: Sequence Fanatics Discussion list >>> Subject: [seqfan] Improved lower bound for A250000 >>> >>> Dear seqfans, >>> >>> Let a(n)=A250000(n) be the maximum size of coexisting armies of queens on >>> an (n,n) chessboard. >>> >>> By modifying the Pratt--Selcoe configuration, I improved the best known >>> lower bound from >>> a(n) > (9/4)*(n/4)^2 >>> to >>> a(n) > (7/3)*(n/4)^2. >>> I have been sloppy with side effects, but to be on the safe side, let's >>> say >>> a(n) > (7/3)*(floor(n/4))^2 - (3+8*sqrt(2)/3)*ceiling(n/4), where the >>> coefficient 3+8*sqrt(2)/3 is a perimeter that you can compute from the >>> following description. >>> >>> The configuration in the limit n = infinity is as follows: denoting by >>> x,y >>> in [0,1] the coordinates on the chessboard, the queens of one color are >>> in >>> the two regions x<1/4, y<1/2, x>> the queens of the other color are obtained by central symmetry. As you >>> can >>> guess, I obtained these coefficients by equalizing the lengths of the >>> "opposite" boundaries of the armies (this already improves (by 1) on the >>> "Board 4" example of the webpage). >>> >>> Using an easy upper bound, one has asymptotically >>> (2+1/3)*(n/4)^2 < a(n) < 4*(n/4)^2. >>> Anyone to help fill the gap? >>> >>> Best, >>> Benoit >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> >>> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> >> Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ >> >> > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From gladhobo at teksavvy.com Thu Feb 26 21:34:15 2015 From: gladhobo at teksavvy.com (Hans Havermann) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 15:34:15 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] A126263 Message-ID: I noticed that William Stein's b-file for http://oeis.org/A126263 incorporates an incorrect a(17) that dates to the original sequence submission. One might as well add a(28) which is 73. From peter.luschny at gmail.com Thu Feb 26 22:27:34 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 22:27:34 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: Conjecture: (a) Every highly abundant number >10 is practical (A005153). (b) For every integer k there exists A such that k divides a(n) for all n>A. Daniel Fischer proved that every highly abundant number greater than 3, 20, 630 is divisible by 2, 6, 12 respectively. The first conjecture has been verified for the first 10000 terms. - Jaycob Coleman, Oct 16 2013 https://oeis.org/A002093 Alaoglu and Erd?s observed that 210 is the largest highly abundant number to include only one factor of two in its prime factorization. All larger highly abundant numbers are divisible by four, and by the argument above they are all practical. The remaining cases are small enough to test individually, and they are all practical. So Jaycob Coleman's conjecture is true. - David Eppstein, 2015-02-26 http://11011110.livejournal.com/305481.html From rkg at ucalgary.ca Thu Feb 26 21:40:50 2015 From: rkg at ucalgary.ca (rkg) Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:40:50 -0700 (MST) Subject: [seqfan] A000292 (fwd) Message-ID: Further apologies if you've received multiple copies of this. R. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:12:39 -0700 (MST) From: rkg To: Sequence Fans Subject: A000292 (fwd) Sorry, my email has been ``upgraded'' and now my address file seems to be all aglee. R. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 13:03:43 -0700 (MST) From: rkg To: Neil Sloane , Sloane's Dream Team , bowerc at usa.net, david at research.att.com, David Wilson , deutsch at duke.poly.edu, djr at nk.ca, dwasserm at earthlink.net, editors at seqfan.net, j.mccranie at comcast.net, layman at math.vt.edu, mathar at strw.leidenuniv.nl, maxal at cs.ucsd.edu, maxale at gmail.com, maximilian.hasler at gmail.com, mlb at well.com, njas at research.att.com, noe at sspectra.com, rayjchandler at sbcglobal.net, rgwv at rgwv.com, rsc at swtch.com, simon.plouffe at gmail.com, simon.plouffe at sympatico.ca, somos at grail.cba.csuohio.edu, stefan.steinerberger at gmail.com, wasserma at spawar.navy.mil Subject: A000292 Dear all, As my Mother used to say, I'm not a good looker, so I may have missed someething in A000292. These are not only the triangular pyramidal numbers, but also the kind of square pyramidal numbers you get by using cubes, and insisting that square faces must always coincide: 1^2, 2^2, 1^2+3^2, 2^2+4^2, 1^2+3^2+5^2, 2^2+4^2+6^2, ... R. 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 1 1 2 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 From lars.blomberg at visit.se Fri Feb 27 07:48:50 2015 From: lars.blomberg at visit.se (Lars Blomberg) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 07:48:50 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] A254042, A254447-A254502 Message-ID: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> Hello! The sequences A254042, A254447-A254502 are using digits 1-7 respectively. The corresponding sequences for digits 8 and 9 seem to be missing. Does anyone know of a reason why this is so? If not, is it ok to add them? /Lars B From njasloane at gmail.com Fri Feb 27 20:18:38 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 14:18:38 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A254042, A254447-A254502 In-Reply-To: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> References: <011301d05259$7224b680$566e2380$@visit.se> Message-ID: > If not, is it ok to add them? Certainly! Please do so! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 1:48 AM, Lars Blomberg wrote: > > > Hello! > > > > The sequences A254042, A254447-A254502 are using digits 1-7 respectively. > > The corresponding sequences for digits 8 and 9 seem to be missing. > > Does anyone know of a reason why this is so? > > If not, is it ok to add them? > > > > /Lars B > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From peter.luschny at gmail.com Fri Feb 27 20:47:51 2015 From: peter.luschny at gmail.com (Peter Luschny) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 20:47:51 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: The argument has been updated. Is it convincing now? Is it appropriate for a nomination for the Riordan Prize? Peter From seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com Sat Feb 28 04:37:20 2015 From: seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com (seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com) Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2015 19:37:20 -0800 (PST) Subject: [seqfan] Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical? Message-ID: <1206331671.6876.1425094640060.JavaMail.root@crow> Hi Peter, Coincidentally I just joined the mailing list. I will take some time to try to understand your argument. Sincerely, Jaycob Coleman On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Peter Luschny 'peter.luschny at gmail.com' via 33Mail wrote: > This email was sent to the alias 'seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com' by ' > seqfan at list.seqfan.eu', and 33Mail forwarded it to you. To block all > further emails to this alias follow this link : > http://www.33mail.com/alias/unsub/15f7de3a21d314f8a067d051ce9beea7 > Refer 2 friends to 33Mail and get a Free Premium Upgrade. Go to this url > to get your referral link http://www.33mail.com/dashboard. > > The argument has been updated. Is it convincing now? > > Is it appropriate for a nomination for the Riordan Prize? > > Peter > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > -- Supercollider? I 'ardly know 'er! From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 07:02:03 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 07:02:03 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Welcome to seqfan (was Re: Are all sufficiently large highly abundant numbers practical?) Message-ID: On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 4:37 AM, wrote: > Hi Peter, > > Coincidentally I just joined the mailing list. Dear Jaycob, Welcome to seqfan. > I will take some time to try > to understand your argument. > > Sincerely, > Jaycob Coleman > > There are several hundreds of subscribers to seqfan. The following advice applies to them as well: For your future posts, please take some time to - ponder that your message will be archived and publicly accessible - consider if your message is better sent privately to a few recipients instead of the list - consider if you are enhancing the signal-to-noise ratio - cut out non relevant parts of previous posts (everyone has received them) - change the subject line if you have ... changed the subject - check you have configured your computer and selected your email address and provider to avoid end signatures, mail server messages, advertising insertions, legal disclaimers - remember that the moderator cannot edit your message for you. He can only forward it, reject it or ask you to re-post a better version. - communicate directly with the administrator through seqfan-owner at list.seqfan.eu if you have a question about the list, your subscription, proper netiquette, etc. With my best regards, Olivier G?rard Seqfan Mailing List Administrator > On Fri, Feb 27, 2015 at 10:47 AM, Peter Luschny 'peter.luschny at gmail.com' > via 33Mail wrote: > > > This email was sent to the alias 'seqfan at jaycobcoleman.33mail.com' by ' > > seqfan at list.seqfan.eu', and 33Mail forwarded it to you. To block all > > further emails to this alias follow this link : > > http://www.33mail.com/alias/unsub/15f7de3a21d314f8a067d051ce9beea7 > > Refer 2 friends to 33Mail and get a Free Premium Upgrade. Go to this url > > to get your referral link http://www.33mail.com/dashboard. > > > From hpd at hpdale.org Sat Feb 28 14:45:22 2015 From: hpd at hpdale.org (Harvey P. Dale) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 13:45:22 +0000 Subject: [seqfan] A102515 Message-ID: I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its definition. Best, Harvey From olivier.gerard at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 14:53:18 2015 From: olivier.gerard at gmail.com (Olivier Gerard) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 14:53:18 +0100 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A102515 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: I agree. It seems to match Table[1 + Floor[Sqrt[2 n - 1]], {n, 1, 83}] instead of Table[ Floor[Sqrt[2 n + 1]], {n, 1, 83}] On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its > definition. > Best, > Harvey > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 17:25:39 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 11:25:39 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Re: A102515 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: please edit it accordingly! In fact perhaps you should replace it with two sequences (old values + new defn, old defn + new values)! Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Olivier Gerard wrote: > I agree. > > It seems to match > > Table[1 + Floor[Sqrt[2 n - 1]], {n, 1, 83}] > > instead of > > Table[ Floor[Sqrt[2 n + 1]], {n, 1, 83}] > > > On Sat, Feb 28, 2015 at 2:45 PM, Harvey P. Dale wrote: > > > I cannot generate the terms of the above sequence from its > > definition. > > Best, > > Harvey > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Seqfan Mailing list - http://list.seqfan.eu/ > From njasloane at gmail.com Sat Feb 28 18:40:22 2015 From: njasloane at gmail.com (Neil Sloane) Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2015 12:40:22 -0500 Subject: [seqfan] Bob Selcoe's version of the EKG and Yellowstone permutations A064413 and A098550 Message-ID: Dear Sequence Fans, Bob Selcoe recently submitted a lovely new sequence, A255582. Like A064413 (the EKG sequence) and A098550 (the Yellowstone Permutation, subject of our recent arXiv:1501.01669) it is a permutation of the natural numbers. The definition is closer to that of A098550, but the graph is more like that of A064413. It would be nice to have a better understanding of what is going on here! Some associated sequences are A255479, A255480, A255481, A255482, all of which need b-files, and A064664 (the inverse perm to the EKG sequence A064413) could use at least a 10,000-term b-file. Vladimir Shevelev's A254077 is of the same ilk, but here there is no proof yet that it is a permutation of the positive integers: such a proof is badly needed. The cross-references in A098550 list many other related sequences that need work. This is all strawberry ice-cream for anyone who likes sequences. Best regards Neil Neil J. A. Sloane, President, OEIS Foundation. 11 South Adelaide Avenue, Highland Park, NJ 08904, USA. Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ. Phone: 732 828 6098; home page: http://NeilSloane.com Email: njasloane at gmail.com From 2stepan at rambler.ru Mon Feb 23 08:59:16 2015 From: 2stepan at rambler.ru (=?koi8-r?B?wNLJyiDHxdLB08nNz9c=?=) Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2015 07:59:16 -0000 Subject: [seqfan] 7... In-Reply-To: <1424678353.15294.15613.59949@mail.rambler.ru> References: <1424678353.15294.15613.59949@mail.rambler.ru> Message-ID: <1424678355.225932.3140.63498@mail.rambler.ru> Dear SeqFans. Primes p such that 15p -/+ 2, 15p -/+ 4 and 15p -/+ 8 are all primes: 7, ... What in the next ( >10^9 ) one? P.S. Numbers n such that 15n -/+ 2, 15n -/+ 4 and 15n -/+ 8 are all primes: 7, 1071, 1295, 2919, 72751, ... (not in OEIS). Primes p such that (15p - 4, 15p - 2, 15p + 2, 15p + 4) is a prime quadruplet: 7, 13, 139, 1049, 4481, ... (not in OEIS). Thanks, JSG .