Timeline for My research paper involves computing additional terms of an existing OEIS sequence. Should I first amend the sequence or publish the results?
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| Jun 9, 2020 at 3:37 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Timothy Chow: thanks for your explanation. Now I will be more careful when using OEIS:-) Of course it is OK, once people are warned, they can check the origin of any information it contains. | |
| Jun 9, 2020 at 0:07 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @AlexandreEremenko : As someone who owes more than one published paper to the existence of the OEIS, including specifically an entry that had no published reference, I would say that the philosophy of the OEIS is that it is primarily a tool for discovery, and not primarily a compilation of absolute truths. I would much rather suffer ten false positives and score a magnificent hit than have zero false positives and miss the hit. Having said that, I will point out that the OEIS is indeed moderated. | |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 20:42 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | @Timothy Chow: I never published anything in that cite but if what you say is correct, this is regrettable. On my opinion, there must be published references:-) For a site to be trustworthy there should be a way to check everything which is there. Hope it is at least moderated. | |
| Jun 8, 2020 at 18:00 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @AlexandreEremenko : There are many OEIS entries with no published reference. If and when a relevant paper is formally published, that information can be added to the OEIS entry. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 13:04 | comment | added | Alexandre Eremenko | You should publish your result first. Because when amending OEIS you will need to insert a reference on your published paper. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 12:38 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | Dima is obviously correct. In addition, I think the number of people scanning newly-extended OEIS sequences in the hope of finding new data that will enable them to write papers gazumping the sequence extender may be lower than you think. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 11:12 | comment | added | Dima Pasechnik | I would even say: publish on arxiv and update the sequence on oeis at the same time. This is sufficient to stake a claim on a new result. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 9:47 | history | edited | YCor |
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| Jun 7, 2020 at 9:34 | comment | added | Wojowu | Why not post the paper on arXiv and then reference the preprint in OEIS entry? Once you are published in a journal you can update the reference. | |
| Jun 7, 2020 at 9:16 | history | asked | Klangen | CC BY-SA 4.0 |