[seqfan] Re: searching on oeis.org for sequences with partial information

Hugo Pfoertner yae9911 at gmail.com
Wed Feb 10 10:56:09 CET 2021


I would recommend writing a small program that can read the "stripped" file
from https://oeis.org/stripped.gz . For example, looking for a sequence
beginning 1,30,30 and then for a further term in a given interval can be
implemented with just a few lines of code.

Hugo

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 3:03 AM Sean A. Irvine <sairvin at gmail.com> wrote:

> It's not perfect, but one way to achieve what you are after is to first
> search for "1, 30, 30".
>
> Choose any of the results, then use the "Sequence in context" links to scan
> along until you reach a(4)>500.
>
> Sean.
>
>
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2021 at 13:52, andre maute <andre.maute at gmx.de> wrote:
>
> > Hello list,
> >
> > I have sometimes the following problem when doing some type of
> enumeration.
> > I wonder if there is already a feature on oeis.org which would help
> here.
> >
> > Suppose you have written a program generating
> > a sequence A(n), which does some intermediate (debug) output.
> >
> > The computation of the A(n) gets slower and slower with the next n,
> > but due to the availability of the intermediate output it is possible
> > to extract perhaps some lower bound for a particular A(n).
> >
> > So you have e.g.
> > A(1) = 1, A(2) = 3, A(3) = 30, A(4) > 500
> >
> > Would it possible to use this information, for an oeis.org search?
> >
> > For this sequence I would like to enter:
> > "1, 3, 30, >500"
> >
> > Best Regards
> > Andre
> >
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