[seqfan] Re: Today's XKCD

Joerg Arndt arndt at jjj.de
Mon Jul 9 10:22:22 CEST 2018


To make things explicit: If a sequence is forseeably a maintenance
nightmare, then refrain from submitting it.

I have rejected a few sequences with exactly this argument.

Best regards,   jj

* Brendan McKay <Brendan.McKay at anu.edu.au> [Jul 09. 2018 07:31]:
> All of which confirms my opinion that sequences like this should NOT be
> added to OEIS.
> 
> Brendan.
> 
> On 9/7/18 12:06 pm, William Marshall wrote:
> > On 09/07/18 06:42, Hugo Pfoertner wrote:
> > > The "print width" example has been too tempting for me to make a "dumb"
> > > sequence:
> > > https://oeis.org/draft/A316599
> > > If it is not rejected, I'll try to insert a graphical example of a
> > > correspondingly ordered printout.
> > > 
> > > Hugo Pfoertner
> > From the sequence comments:
> > 
> > "since Helvetica is a proprietary font, the almost-identical font
> > metrics of the Arial regular font are used here instead"
> > 
> > Arial is also a proprietary font. Perhaps you had meant to use
> > Liberation Sans instead.
> > 
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