[seqfan] Don't submit a difficult query more than once, it kills the system

Neil Sloane njasloane at gmail.com
Mon Feb 22 02:11:37 CET 2016


Dear Seq Fans,
Some  queries take a while to be answered.
Queries with lots of 0's and 1's, for instance.
Or some queries that don't have commas, like this one:

” 32 39 29 20 37 24 16 29 43 26” (without the quotes)

If you submit a query on the OEIS web page, and you don't get
an answer right away, then *PLEASE WAIT*, and *don't submit it again*
*and again*. Each time it slows down the server, and this afternoon around
14:00 EST there were multiple submissions of one query that
essentially crashed the OEIS.

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



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