[seqfan] Re: A marginal observation on some tables of R. H. Hardin

Joerg Arndt arndt at jjj.de
Sat Feb 14 20:00:11 CET 2015


[I was biting my tongue up to here]

* Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> [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
> 
> [...]



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