[seqfan] Re: Forcing of exact searches?

[Peter Munn]

I don't know how easy it would be to provide, but I offer this other
example of when a "raw" search option would be useful. There are 70 to 80
sequences that consist only of "1"s and "-1"s and I know no way to make
the search distinguish the two values, making it more difficult to find
such a sequence, and even more awkward to be sure such a sequence is
absent.

Best Regards,
Peter

On Thu, August 8, 2019 9:28 pm, Giovanni Resta 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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