[seqfan] Re: A055387

[Neil Sloane]

Our rule is that if the sequence has only been in the OEIS for about a year
or less, we recycle the A-number, but for older entries we keep the entry
and add the keyword "dead".  This makes sense because otherwise there would
be huge numbers of dead entries. We keep a public record of this action
on the OEIS wiki in the file called "https://oeis.org/wiki/Deleted_sequences".
 Take a look at it!

We do take our custodial duties very seriously.

Best regards
Neil

Neil J. A. Sloane, Chairman, OEIS Foundation.
Also Visiting Scientist, Math. Dept., Rutgers University,
Email: njasloane at gmail.com



On Wed, Jan 18, 2023 at 7:19 PM Marc LeBrun <mlb at well.com> wrote:

> "The OEIS is an archive, and the first principle of archives is
> permanence."
>
> Heh, except that the OEIS recycles A-numbers -- probably not a "best
> practice", but NJAS has pragmatic reasons for doing it (for one, not
> causing big gaps in the sequence when a batch of recently proposed
> sequences gets rejected) so I guess we'll just have to live with it.
>
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