[seqfan] Re: Forcing of exact searches?

[Hugo Pfoertner]

Michael Hutchins suggested to me to use a Google search. I your example of
"powerful numbers"
https://www.google.com/search?q=powerful+numbers+site%3Aoeis.org
produces a result that is by orders of magnitude better than the useless
output of the genuine OEIS search.

On Thu, Aug 8, 2019 at 10:28 PM Giovanni Resta <g.resta at iit.cnr.it> wrote:

> I did encounter the same problem many times and I tried a few variations
> but it seems there is not an "exact" search.
>
> For example, I was looking  for powerful (A001694) numbers but since
> "powerful" is translated to "power" I got thousands of results: I had to
> enter a search like 4, 8, 9, 16, 25, 27, 32, 36, 49, 64, 72 to find the
> actual sequence.
>
> A simple search of a fixed string would be very useful.
>
> Il 07/08/2019 09:57, Hugo Pfoertner ha scritto:
> > SeqFans,
> >
> > is there a method to force "exact" searches for words?
> > A search
> >
> https://oeis.org/search?q=%22factorization%22+keyword%3Ahard&sort=&language=&go=Search
> > produces 922 hits, because the occurrence of "factor" also produces a -
> in
> > my case unwanted - match.
> > I can not see that the search hints https://oeis.org/hints.html deal
> with
> > this problem.
> >
> > Hugo
> >
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