[HN Gopher] The Connoisseur of Number Sequences (2015)
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The Connoisseur of Number Sequences (2015)
Author : optimalsolver
Score : 23 points
Date : 2021-05-07 12:05 UTC (1 days ago)
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| yottalove wrote:
| What comes next? 10, 15, 38, 1844...
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| (Besides the obvious answer of the existence of infinite ways to
| generate any sequence)
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| "Magnetization ...1853, 4124, 4818" from the index to The
| Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (1995)
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| Too meta?
| v64 wrote:
| An amazing resource that I referenced frequently as an undergrad
| math major.
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| There were many times where I'd be working on a proof and I'd
| find a pattern that could be expressed as an integer sequence,
| but I'd have no idea what the significance of the numbers was or
| if the pattern held infinitely.
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| Thanks to OEIS, it was trivial to plug the numbers I had into the
| site and discover the underlying logic with references for
| learning more.
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