[seqfan] Re: A004129

[Neil Sloane]

Rob,  That sequence, A004129, is also M2525, meaning it is in the 1995
book, and there the description
was "Postage stamp problem".  The words "Number of solutions to" were added
by me in 2004, and are clearly wrong.
Please make the necessary changes!  Thank you!!

Best regards
Neil

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 2:36 PM Rob Pratt <robert.william.pratt at gmail.com>
wrote:

> https://oeis.org/A004129
> A004129 Number of solutions to postage stamp problem.
> (Formerly M2525)
>
> Is this sequence title accurate?  It seems instead to be the *largest
> *number
> m such that there is an n-subset of nonnegative integers such that 1,...,m
> can be represented as a sum of two distinct elements (n_\alpha(k) in the
> linked paper by Graham and Sloane).  The current title sounds like the
> *number
> *of such n-subsets.
>
> Thanks,
> Rob
>
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