Some advice for new users and new contributors?
(From Jonathan Post (jvospost3(AT)gmail.com), Jun 07 2008) New OEIS contributors should be strongly encouraged to use the OEIS webcam to see the breadth and variety of those seqs deemed “nice.” It is the equivalent of listening to a radio station that plays the greatest classical or jazz or rock songs (and for that auditory matter using the “listen” feature), or walking through a museum of unusually beautiful Mathematics (and, for that visual matter, encouraging the use of the “graph” feature). Another positive message to new OEIS contributors, to enhance that sense of community, and to provide a balance against “making stuff up” without reference to what is known and had been judged interesting, is, beyond looking for duplicates, looking from triples and n-tuples of sequences that are implicitly related, and making that relationship explicit, perhaps by showing that these are different rows or columns or diagonals of the same previously unshown array. Or by making the analogy: sequenc
