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I suspect this happens more often than anyone realizes. I really want to read or write the sci-fi story where aliens ping our intelligence with some obscure se
by jerf 3y ago
I suspect this happens more often than anyone realizes.
I really want to read or write the sci-fi story where aliens ping our intelligence with some obscure sequence and they think we're geniuses because thanks to the OEIS we're all like "Oh, yeah, that's just A260151, numerators of coefficients c(n) in asymptotic expansion of Sum_{m=1..k} sqrt(m) ~ zeta(-1/2) + (2/3)*k^(3/2) + (-1/2)*k^(1/2) + Sum_{n=0..inf} c(n)/k^(2*n+1/2)., here's the next 50 terms" https://oeis.org/A260151 https://oeis.org/A260151 in about two minutes.