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The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

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Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

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Post by leviself »

brianpgordon wrote: post #3

That site is more than 15 years old. I don't know how anyone is still discovering it for the first time.

I was a little surprised to see this getting traction on HN too. It would be like seeing a link to the Wayback Machine or Wolfram Alpha with no qualification.

Re: The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

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Post by qdot76367 »

I had the honor of having lunch with Dr. Sloane once. By the end, the paper tablecloth was COVERED in sequences scrawled in pen. He was grinning and telling everyone at the table about different properties and new sequences being worked on.

OEIS was awesome before that, but seeing how much he really, really loves sequences made it even better. You can feel the love between every comma.

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Post by jamesbritt »

crntaylor wrote: post #5
brianpgordon wrote: post #3

That site is more than 15 years old. I don't know how anyone is still discovering it for the first time.

Today I listened to the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust for the first time. It was released in 1972. Is it really that bewildering to you that not everyone has seen everything that exists already?

Wow. So what did you think? (I heard the album a year or so after it came out. Curious how it sounds to someone today.)

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Post by leif »

qdot76367 wrote: post #14

I had the honor of having lunch with Dr. Sloane once. By the end, the paper tablecloth was COVERED in sequences scrawled in pen. He was grinning and telling everyone at the table about different properties and new sequences being worked on. OEIS was awesome before that, but seeing how much he really, really loves sequences made it even better. You can feel the love between every comma.

This warms my heart.

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Post by crntaylor »

jamesbritt wrote: post #17
crntaylor wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Today I listened to the album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust for the first time. It was released in 1972. Is it really that bewildering to you that not everyone has seen everything that exists already?

Wow. So what did you think? (I heard the album a year or so after it came out. Curious how it sounds to someone today.)

I really enjoyed it. It's an odd experience, listening to an album that old and that well known for the first time, because almost inevitably you will have heard some of the songs before without realising where they were from. A couple of times I recognized intros or riffs but couldn't quite place them - probably from movies, advertisements, or just hearing them on the radio.

You also have to try and shed yourself of the intervening 40 years of musical and social development, to try and get a sense of why this album created such a buzz when it was released for the first time (context - I'm about 30 years old, so I wasn't even born until 10 years after this was released, and wasn't socially/musically aware until about 25 years after it came out.)

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