[seqfan] Re: Arabic Poetry Sequences

[bradklee at gmail.com]

Neil,

Granted, I could be mistaken. 

There is an issue about whether A000045 should be named 
Fibonacci Or Hemachandra numbers, and how do we decide?

But actually, I was really thinking about demographics, and guessing 
that a census of OEIS would be heavily weighted toward Europe 
and USA, with very few members from China, India, Korea, Taiwan, 
Thai Land, Sri Lanka, Japan, etc. Iraq, Afghanistan, Iran, turkey, etc.
And I also don’t think OEIS has many people from Africa.

A pro-scientific bias sounds desireable, but could be problematic.

The other day I was reading a butterfly article by Japanese authors. 
It was published by Springer, and sounded to have been written by 
Germans. The article fell short culturally, and I much preferred 
another that included a discussion of endangerment to satoyama.
The author also included one paragraph on personal, childhood 
recollections, of studying insects in satoyama before westernization 
changed the landscape. This was a powerful rhetorical technique.

So I think there is a demonstrated, pro-western bias to OEIS, but 
will listen if you have a rebuttal, especially regarding demographics.

—Brad


> On Sep 1, 2019, at 10:21 PM, Neil Sloane <njasloane at gmail.com> wrote:
> Brad,  You are mistaken