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

jean-paul allouche jean-paul.allouche at imj-prg.fr
Mon Feb 15 09:32:49 CET 2021


Hi

If I am not mistaken, you gave the values:
A(1) = 1, A(2) = 3, A(3) = 30, A(4) = 1080
Sorting out the first one and dividing the
remaining terms by 3, gives
1, 10, 360
Feeding the oeis with these three values
gives only two matches

best
jp



Le 13/02/2021 à 10:53, andre maute a écrit :
> This misses the whole point of my question and ignores
> the situation when I started this thread.
>
> At the beginning of this thread I only had three numbers available
> 1, 3, 30
>
> Essentially your suggestion results in the reduced "sequence" of two 
> numbers
>
> 1, 10
>
> and a search on oeis.org with these two numbers gives at the moment 
> 7443 results.
>
> Quite a lot to check these by hand.
>
> Andre
>
> On 2/11/21 10:33 AM, Hugo Pfoertner wrote:
>> Perhaps the general recommendation to leave out initial terms, 
>> especially 0
>> and 1, in a search is applicable here. This then gives a hit to A203478,
>> for example. In addition, you should always try a search with common
>> factors divided out, in this case factor 3, which then e.g. results in a
>> hit for "1, 10, 360" on A301310. My search program, with which this is
>> possible automatically and which I presented here some time ago (
>> http://list.seqfan.eu/pipermail/seqfan/2020-October/021017.html ), 
>> seems to
>> be used by no one except myself.
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 11, 2021 at 7:28 AM andre maute <andre.maute at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>>> FYI, i have now the fourth term of this sequence
>>>
>>> A(1) = 1, A(2) = 3, A(3) = 30, A(4) = 1080
>>>
>>> The fifth term is out of scope at the moment,
>>> because my C++ program needed already 1500 minutes for A(4).
>>>
>>> A(d) somehow counts the number of ways to reconnect
>>> the d-simplices of a particular dissected d-hypercube.
>>>
>>> Andre
>>>
>>> On 2/9/21 9:30 PM, andre maute 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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