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Comment by nickdrozd

The OEIS is a curated selection of integer sequences. It only includes those sequences deemed interesting (usually mathematically, but also recreationally, and occasionally for some other reason). It's easy to generate a new sequence from an old one, say B(n) = A(n) + 11 for some sequence A. But if you submit that it will be rejected because it isn't interesting. (Trying to come up with an OEIS-worthy sequence is difficult and edifying, and a great rainy-day activity.)

But even if the OEIS had no standards and included every imaginable sequence, it still wouldn't include more than a vanishingly small fraction of the total set of all integer sequences. This is because almost all integer sequences are infinitely long and cannot be specified. There just aren't enough words!

parent nickdrozd 2 years ago

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