[seqfan] Re: metadata for Mathematica code

Wouter Meeussen wouter.meeussen at telenet.be
Sun Nov 15 11:17:33 CET 2015


I feel responsible for quite a few %t  Mathematica lines in the OEIS that 
might be critisised as "unreadable by humans".
Most of those were created to try to achieve 3 things at once:

    1:    speed and memory efficiency
    2:    compactness
    3:    clarity

in that order.

But over a span of 15 years, my style has changed, my mathematics skills 
have improved and Mathematica has changed.
Originally all program lines were in Mma version 4, until recently I 
switched to version 10.
I'm sorry to say that the "Combinatorica" package in Mathematica has only 
been partly incorporated into the kernel language, and, as a result, 
downward compatibility is not seamless.

I'm willing to go over all 654 sequences of mine and implement changes 
advised by posters in a style we would all agree on.

If you would be so kind to pick a few examples and illustrate the prefered 
new style, and
if you could show me how to get a download of my sequences that have a %t 
line.


Hopefully thes changes could then be uploaded 'in batch' and not submitted 
one by one using the standard approval method.


with constructive greetings,

Wouter. 




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