More Whimsical OEIS Sequences

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34 points | by surprisetalk 1 day ago

4 comments

robinhouston 1 hour ago

The edit history of the “nonsense sequence” makes for painful reading.
https://oeis.org/history?seq=A133451&start=0&n=30

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- dooglius 30 minutes ago
  
  I am missing some context here what was wrong with the original description?
tectec 3 hours ago

For the first mentioned sequences based on fonts, what's the first number in the sequence that has less digits than the previous number?

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- bradrn 2 hours ago
  
  It looks like that never occurs for Helvetica (A316600) due to the absence of kerning. However, with Arial (A316599) the description notes:
  > a(29368) = 111111 is a first notable anomaly, because its bounding box width of 2675 lies between those of a(29367) = 49115, with bounding box width 2655, and a(29369) = 70002, with bounding box width 2681.
dvh 3 hours ago

Can somebody explain what "less" keyword means? I'm asking for a friend.

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- yunruse 3 hours ago
  
  According to the wiki [0], "This is a less interesting sequence and is less likely to be the one you were looking for."
  Confusingly, "more" means "please add more terms"...
  [0] https://oeis.org/wiki/Keywords
Gander5739 1 hour ago

https://xkcd.com/2016/