Neat integer sequences
Neat integer sequences
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Interesting thread in which oeis.org/A126140 makes a surprise appearance
I got nerd sniped by Richard Stanley this week. He answered a MathOverflow question about undecidable problems by suggesting that "people in the area believe" that it's undecidable whether or not a given polyomino, you can use it to tile a rectangle, as in the below picture.
A126140(9) = 4 is surprising! There are 1,285 free nonominoes (ignoring rotations and reflections), and 1,050 can tile the plane, but only 41 can tile a rectangle, and two of those are trivial: oeis.org/A126138
Here's the other 39, and they all have an order of 2 or 4 (from cflmath.com/Polyomino/re... ):
A005042: Primes formed by the initial digits of the decimal expansion of Pi oeis.org/A005042
And the one after that is 16,208 digits long. (It ends with a 7.) oeis.org/A060421
A005042: Primes formed by the initial digits of the decimal expansion of Pi oeis.org/A005042
A006052: Number of magic squares of order n composed of the numbers from 1 to n^2 1, 0, 1, 880, 275305224, 17753889197660635632 oeis.org/A081263
Probably my favorite variant is bimagic squares, where if you square every value in a magic square it's still magic. It's impossible to make a bimagic square smaller than 8x8. www.multimagie.com/English/Smal...
A006052: Number of magic squares of order n composed of the numbers from 1 to n^2 1, 0, 1, 880, 275305224, 17753889197660635632 oeis.org/A081263
The Luoshu Square, the only solution for n=3, has been certainly known since the 6th century, and possibly hundreds of years longer than that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luoshu_...
The number of squares for n=6 was only calculated in 2023: magicsquare6.net
A006052: Number of magic squares of order n composed of the numbers from 1 to n^2 1, 0, 1, 880, 275305224, 17753889197660635632 oeis.org/A081263
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