[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...
       | 
       | (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)
       | 
       | Too meta?
        
       | v64 wrote:
       | An amazing resource that I referenced frequently as an undergrad
       | math major.
       | 
       | 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.
       | 
       | 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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