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The fax numbers of the beast, and other mathematical sports

submitted by marysm+(OP) on 2026-02-03 07:41:37 | 29 points 10 comments
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3. crtasm+9J4[view] [source] 2026-02-04 14:08:45
>>marysm+(OP)
As it doesn't seem to be linked, here is Hofstadter Q-sequence https://oeis.org/A005185

I can't tell which of Chai Wah Wu's submissions the interviewer was referring to. https://oeis.org/search?q=Chai%20Wah%20Wu&fmt=short&sort=cre...

4. hwd+oM4[view] [source] 2026-02-04 14:25:11
>>marysm+(OP)
Strange. In the article A138563 is described as a sequence of prime numbers that contain the substring 667. But these are obviously not prime numbers. Having a look at https://oeis.org/A138563 reveals that these are simply any numbers containing the substring.
5. bombca+VT4[view] [source] 2026-02-04 15:02:02
>>marysm+(OP)
https://oeis.org/ is the page, interestingly enough https://oeis.org/A000001 is not the "positive integers" - that's https://oeis.org/A000027
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6. bazzar+085[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 16:04:59
>>crtasm+9J4
I think maybe https://oeis.org/A263499

You can shorten the candidates list quite a bit: https://oeis.org/search?q=author%3A%22Chai+Wah+Wu%22+2015+Pr...

The article says "Spring 2015" but in fact the magazine was published December 29, 2015. In the text it mentions https://oeis.org/history?seq=A250001 so the interview could not have been earlier than October 2015; Wu's sequence is "recent".

There's a few sequences that jump out, this one, and the prime palindromes of 0's and 1s whose squares are palindromes; but that was August and seems too early.

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9. toast0+jm5[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 17:06:41
>>onioni+HG4
Yeah, but using 616 is problematic because it ruins the Barney is the antichrist bit [1], and we wouldn't want to associate NANPA area code 616 with both the beast and Grand Rapids, MI (historically, 616 covered more of western MI)

[1] https://www.christadelphianbooks.org/agora/bible_books/jff01...

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10. bombca+WR5[view] [source] [discussion] 2026-02-04 19:21:27
>>hwd+oM4
https://oeis.org/A321001 is what they wanted, obviously easy to get them confused.
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