Talk:Integer sequences

Criteria for inclusion

A question to current and future maintainers of this page: what are criteria to decide which sequences are / are not included here? I think it's pretty obvious that including every relevant sequence will make this a Very Long Page(TM), that will load slowly and be read-to-end by almost no one. Confocal (talk) 03:20, 8 October 2022 (UTC)

This is an attempt to initiate what I consider to be an interesting topic, not to establish criteria for inclusion. I gathered sequences that appeared in the wiki and referenced OEIS, sequences in OEIS that referenced Life, and a few like the sawtooths that I found interesting. If this stimulates others to expand or contract the article and establish criteria, so much the better. Book (talk) 19:19, 19 November 2022 (UTC)

Format

Previously the integer sequences use a monospaced font that, in my opinion, is aesthetically pleasing and easy to copy directly:

2, 6, 14, 14, 62, 126, 30, 30, 1022, ...

There is only one leading space required for this display format, making it also easy to edit and maintain. But why was it replaced with a leading comma in this edit? GUYTU6J (talk) 15:33, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

• I replaced the leading-space formatting with the leading-colon formatting so that the first word of the bulleted description of a sequence is aligned with the first listed number of the sequence below (which seems to be slightly preferable aesthetically). In terms of maintainability, I think the leading-colon formatting is strictly better because it is explicit (while the leading space is invisible and less intuitive). In terms of being able to copy and paste it, I do not see any significant difference - either version can be copied and pasted somewhere else. Confocal (talk) 16:12, 20 November 2022 (UTC)

Personally I prefer not to align the first word and the first number, so that

at first glance of page there is a clear distinction between description outside and sequence inside.

That the list of integers above has a frame and a different background also satisfies said intention. If you feel a space is not explicit, how about <pre></pre>?

2, 6, 14, 14, 62, 126, 30, 30, 1022, ...

And the only issue is easily fixable:

Instead of html markup 2<sup>n</sup>, say plaintext 2^n

GUYTU6J (talk) 16:34, 20 November 2022 (UTC)