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A058883
The "Wild Numbers", from the novel of the same title (Version 1).
1
11, 67, 2, 4769, 67
OFFSET
0,1
COMMENTS
Apparently these are completely fictional and there is no mathematical explanation. However, see the pseudo-wild numbers in A058971, A058972, A058973, A058977, A058988, A059175. See also the Lagarias article.
REFERENCES
P. Schogt, De Wilde Getallen, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 1998.
P. Schogt, The Wild Numbers, Four Walls Eight Windows Pub., New York, 2000.
D. F. Wallace, Rhetoric and the math melodrama, Science, 290 (Dec 22 2000), 2263-2267.
A number of other reviews of this book exist on the Web.
LINKS
J. C. Lagarias, Wild and Wooley numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly, 113 (No. 2, 2006), 97-108.
P. Schogt, The Wild Number Problem: math or fiction?, arXiv:1211.6583 [math.HO], 2012. - From N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 03 2013
Wikipedia, Wild number
CROSSREFS
See A145833 for another version.
Sequence in context: A091929 A345036 A244304 * A141969 A142645 A201605
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
N. J. A. Sloane, Jan 08 2001
EXTENSIONS
Thanks to Enoch Haga for investigating these numbers (Jan 14 2001).
Offset changed to 0 by Sean A. Irvine, Sep 03 2022, because of the Wikipedia link.
STATUS
approved