THE VIDEO SHELF · integer sequences
Sloane's Gap - Numberphile
A Numberphile video with Dr James Grime on Sloane's Gap, the observation that integers in the OEIS are not evenly represented and some numbers are underrepresented. It explains the clusters of 'interesting' numbers.
Why HN readers recommended it
HN recommends it as a concise, quick explanation of the OEIS pattern when threads touch the integer sequence encyclopedia.
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Video & recommendation details
- Creator / channel
- Numberphile
- Topic
- integer sequences
- Format
- explainer
- Level
- general
- HN recommenders in dataset
- 2
- HN mentions in dataset
- 3
- Recommendation years in dataset
- 2013–2019
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From the original HN conversations
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Background on the On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences: [LINK] Very good video on Sloane's Gap, for the impatient: [VIDEO] The article is particularly interesting to me for it's examination of what complexity theory tells us to expect for the distribution of 'interesting' integer sequences. That …
jlgreco on Hacker News · 2013-10
In Sloane's Gap.Well the first number that doesn't appear in OEIS is 18159. That make it interesting to me , but apparently this number isn't interesting to mathematicians. Of course since OEIS is finite, there will always be numbers which don't make it. What's really interesting is …
Houshalter on Hacker News · 2017-01
In 2017 is not just another prime number
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