“A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later
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#2Neil Sloane (author of the paper and curator of the OEIS) has been featured on Numberphile several times and it’s always a pleasure to watch. https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLt5AfwLFPxWJXQqPe_llzWm...
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#3The OEIS lives here:
Super useful resource.
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#4A classic resource. I have my own favorite sequences. Thanks Neil for this unexpected way of connecting to previous research!
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#5The OEIS lives here: https://oeis.org/ Super useful resource.
As I understand it, written in Go.
There's a mildly humorous "How do you know" exchange where someone on HN quizzes the very person most likely to know:
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#6The OEIS lives here: https://oeis.org/ Super useful resource.
Any website that lets me see "The numbers of Mozart's piano concerti" as a graph must be doing something correctly.
http://oeis.org/A064172/graph
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#7> It was no mind-reading trick, the Catalan numbers are certainly the
most common sequence that people don’t know about
Guilty as charged! I learned about this sequence after looking it up in the OEIS, back when I was still a young student.
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#8The OEIS lives here: https://oeis.org/ Super useful resource.
As I understand it, written in Go. There's a mildly humorous "How do you know" exchange where someone on HN quizzes the very person most likely to know: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9920020
HN has had a couple of those.
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#9This makes me so happy to read. I had the privilege of working on the same lab as Neil (and Dave Applegate, another notable person in OEIS). No exaggeration at all to call them geniuses, you hang out with them for 5 minutes and know they're cut from different cloth. Nicest folk, too.
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#10The OEIS lives here: https://oeis.org/ Super useful resource.
I always have a need to use this on puzzle hunts, but I don't think it ever helped.