[seqfan] Re: Secondary offset of zero

[Neil Sloane]

Doug, That is a good suggestion.  If I was starting the database afresh,
I would use that idea.  But given that we have 258,000 entries, and
many much more urgent
things to deal with (especially the lack
of editors and the
ever-increasing size of the editing stack) it will have to wait
until we have a few million dollars and a paid staff...

I agree it is a good idea!
Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, Jun 17, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Doug Bell <bell.doug at gmail.com> wrote:
> I asked this question on the wiki Offsets talk page
> <https://oeis.org/wiki/Talk:Offsets#Why_not_use_0_for_the_secondary_offset_when_all_terms_are_-1.2C_0.2C_or_1.3F>,
> but given that nobody apparently has that page watch-listed, perhaps this
> is a better place to get visibility.
>
> Why not use 0 for the secondary offset when all terms are -1, 0, or 1?
>
> Currently there is no way from the secondary offset to distinguish between
> sequences where the first term is not -1, 0, or 1 and sequences where *all*
> the terms *are* -1, 0, or 1.
>
> -Doug Bell
>
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