[seqfan] Re: How many ways to dissect a square into 4 congruent pieces

[Neil Sloane]

Well, don't change the values in A003213, even if they seem to be wrong.
The OEIS policy is to include published sequences that are wrong along with
a pointer to the correct entry.

So, please, create a new entry for the correct terms (once everyone agrees
on what the correct values are), and I will edit A003213 to point to it.

I must say I'm very surprised that Tom Parkin's entries are wrong - he was
normally very reliable, and an expert programmer, and famous for finding a
counter-example to a conjecture of Euler.  Also a vice-president at CDC.
Here are some references in the OEIS to his work:

%D A000104 T. R. Parkin, L. J. Lander and D. R. Parkin, "Polyomino
enumeration results," SIAM Fall Meeting, Santa Barbara, California, 1967.

%H A000230 L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin, <a href="
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1967-0230677-4">On the first
appearance of prime differences</a>, Math. Comp., 21 (1967), 483-488.

%H A001560 T. R. Parkin and D. Shanks, <a href="
http://www.jstor.org/stable/2003251">On the distribution of parity in the
partition function</a>, Math. Comp., 21 (1967), 466-480.

%H A039664 L. J. Lander, T. R. Parkin and J. L. Selfridge, <a href="
http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0025-5718%28196707%2921%3A99%3C446%3AASOESO%3E2.0.CO%3B2-7">A
survey of equal sums of like powers</a>, Math. Comp. vol. 21 no. 99, 1967,
pp. 446-459, Table 1.

%D A048242 Parkin, Thomas R.; Lander, Leon J.; Abundant numbers, Aerospace
Corporation, Los Angeles, 1964, 119 unnumbered pages. Copy deposited in UMT
file.

%H A089180 L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin, <a href="
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0025-5718-1967-0222008-0">Consecutive primes in
arithmetic progression</a>, Math. Comp. vol 21 no 99 (1967) p 489.

%H A134341 L. J. Lander and T. R. Parkin, <a href="
http://dx.doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9904-1966-11654-3">Counterexample to
Euler's conjecture on sums of like powers</a>, Bull. Amer. Math. Soc. 72
(6) (1966), p. 1079.


Is it possible that he interpreted the problem in a different way?  I do
have several more pages about his calculations that I will scan in and
attach to A003213, in case that will help explain what he was doinmg.  I
will try to do that later today.

Best regards
Neil

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On Wed, May 13, 2015 at 12:01 PM, Giovanni Resta <g.resta at iit.cnr.it> wrote:

> I also got a(8) = 6371333036059.
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> Later on, if nobody objects, I could edit A003213 accordingly.
>
> Giovanni
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