``A handbook of Integer sequences fifty years later
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DOI10.1007/S00283-023-10266-6arXiv2301.03149OpenAlexW4366086636MaRDI QIDQ6202769FDOQ6202769
Authors: N. J. A. Sloane 
Publication date: 27 February 2024
Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)
Abstract: Until 1973 there was no database of integer sequences. Someone coming across the sequence 1, 2, 4, 9, 21, 51, 127,... would have had no way of discovering that it had been studied since 1870 (today these are called the Motzkin numbers, and form entry A001006 in the database). Everything changed in 1973 with the publication of "A Handbook of Integer Sequences", which listed 2372 entries. This report describes the fifty-year evolution of the database from the "Handbook" to its present form as "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences" (or OEIS), which contains 360,000 entries, receives a million visits a day, and has been cited 10,000 times, often with a comment saying "discovered thanks to the OEIS".
Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.03149
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