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Maintaining OEIS, which continues to grow, has been an exhausting one-man effort for Sloane.
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OEIS began life as a book, The Encyclopedia (originally the Handbook) of Integer Sequences by Neil A.J. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, still in print.
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But it still does important work and one is a Web site called the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS).
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So Sloane announced at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Francisco that the Web site is being converted into a wiki, which will allow for collaborative maintenance by the mathematical community, and will be run by the non-profit OEIS Foundation with Sloane as president.
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With proper care and maintenance, OEIS could exist for thousands of years in the future and can be of immense use not only to mathematicians but also to other scientists like chemists since it contains a large number of chemistry related sequences.
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With OEIS, a researcher can simply enter a string of numbers and find out what is known about it.
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OEIS sequence -- a rare congenital anomaly with prenatal evaluation and postnatal outcome in six cases.
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The OEIS website says, "It is hoped that eventually the database will include every (interesting) number sequence that has ever been published."
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It is much like the Oxford English Dictionary: The OED provides the earliest quotations for each usage of a word, and the OEIS similarly provides a sequence's full "life story."
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"The OEIS has really changed the way mathematicians and other scientists work," says Doron
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