A handbook of integer sequences
by Neil J. A. Sloane · first published 1973
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OEIS is fun but the bare homepage probably isn't too helpful. I highly recommend Sloane's memoir about the history of OEIS: http://neilsloane.com/doc/HIS50.pdf "_A Handbook of Integer Sequences_ 50 Years Later", Sloane 2023
on “Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences” ↗Sloane kept his collection first on punched cards, then in a “handbook”—A Handbook of Integer Sequences, published in 1973, with the copyright held by Bell Telephone Laboratories, where he started working in 1968. In 1995 he launched an automated email lookup service called Superseeker, whereby the curious…
on “The Surprising Power of Neil Sloane’s Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences” ↗…only talking about the software for the "interactive" UI, not the database itself. The database itself goes back to punched cards and the original interactive UI was a pair of published books (first A Handbook of Integer Sequences, and then the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences).
on “The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences” ↗My favorite hard core nerd insult used to be "Your idea of a hot date is looking up dirty words in the unabridged dictionary," but now I'm going to use "Your idea of a hot date is looking up 69 in the Handbook of Integer Sequences."
on ““A Handbook of Integer Sequences” Fifty Years Later” ↗…only talking about the software for the "interactive" UI, not the database itself. The database itself goes back to punched cards and the original interactive UI was a pair of published books (first A Handbook of Integer Sequences, and then the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences)."[5] [0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39902241 [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39903685 [2]: https://oeis.org/wiki/Welcome#OEIS:_Brief_History…
on “Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences” ↗