Timeline for What are some early examples of creation of lists / catalogues of (particularly) combinatorial objects?
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| Nov 23, 2010 at 22:58 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | From the acknowledgments: "The table was produced by first recording the sequences on punched cards, and (except when the sequence was generated by the author) comparing a listing of the cards with the original tables. These cards were then stored on magnetic tape, and the table has been typeset automatically from this tape." | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 10:41 | comment | added | Gerry Myerson | Yes, the OEIS started as a printed catalogue, but 1973 can hardly be said to predate electronic computers. I imagine that much of the catalogueing (sp?) was done by machine. | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 9:09 | comment | added | Martin Rubey | BTW: when will your catalogue be online again? | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 9:09 | comment | added | Martin Rubey | Yes, I should have marked my answer as "slightly off topic", but I think it's still important to know that the oeis started as a printed catalogue. Hm, maybe the keyword:nice could help you? | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 8:30 | comment | added | Gordon Royle | I'm more interested in lists of "things" rather than lists of numbers. I know that the original EIS had many sequences that counted actual things, but many of these are theoretical formulas and not done by "constructing the objects and then counting them". (The current OEIS has been ruined for me by the people who insist on submitting hundreds of sequences that just don't count anything at all but just happen to be artificially defined sequences of numbers.) | |
| Nov 23, 2010 at 8:06 | history | answered | Martin Rubey | CC BY-SA 2.5 |