[seqfan] Re: A002094 from 1875 needs more terms

[Neil Sloane]

Peter, That's a good point!  I just added the original definition from the
1973 "Handbook".

Best regards
Neil

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On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 5:16 AM, Peter Munn <techsubs at pearceneptune.co.uk>
wrote:

> Is it possible, though, for someone who understands it to add a comment
> about the sequence's origins and how Schiff saw it? Reading A002094 now,
> it is mathematically much improved, but feels a little divorced from its
> history, and thereby seems to have lost something.
>
> Best Regards,
>
> Peter
>
> On Sat, March 17, 2018 5:08 pm, Hugo Pfoertner wrote:
> > The German in Schiff's article is difficult to understand, but it is my
> impression that at the time of writing the meaning of "alcohol radical"
> was different from the modern use, where it means an "-OH" attached to a
> hydrocarbon.
> > https://www.britannica.com/science/alcohol/Structure-and-
> classification-of-alcohols
> > So perhaps the name of the sequence should be adapted to modern chemical
> terminology and "alcohol" be dropped. The title of Richard's
> illustrations
> > might be a candidate for a less misleading sequence title.
>
> > Schiff 's Hydrocarbons with a Single Ring
>
> > Hugo Pfoertner
>
> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2018 at 5:44 PM, Richard J. Mathar
> <mathar at mpia-hd.mpg.de> wrote:
> >>
> >> In response to http://list.seqfan.eu/pipermail/seqfan/2018-March/
> 018463.html :
> >> As an appetizer I added illustrations for the first few terms
> >> (as far as I understand the compositions) to http://oeis.org/A002094 .
> >>
> >> RJM
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