A242782 The longest Dewey Decimal number (as of 2001).

3, 0, 1, 1, 5, 4, 3, 0, 1, 2, 9, 1, 7, 4, 9, 2, 7, 0, 5, 6, 9, 4

Offset

3,1

Comments

Bob Kann writes: "Staff members at Northwestern University Library Cataloging Department have identified what is believed to be the longest Dewey number ever under serious consideration for assignment: a 23-digit monster for ARAB ATTITUDES TOWARD ISRAEL by Yehoshafat Harkabi, 301.1543012917492705694. The meaning of the number can be broken down as follows: 301-Sociology, 1543-Opinions, attitudes, beliefs on specific topics (Add 001-999); 301-Sociology; 29-Historical and geographical treatment (Add "areas"); 174-Region where specific racial, ethnic, national groups predominate (Add from Table 5); 927-Arabs and Maltese; 0-General relations between two countries (Add "areas"); 5694-Palestine, Israel. In other words: Historical and geographical treatment of opinions on countries where Arabs predominate, and their relations with Israel."

Links

Table of n, a(n) for n=3..24.

Bob Kann, All Their Ways are Helping Ways: Stories from the History of Madison Public Library (2001).

Wikipedia, Library of Congress Classification

Wikipedia, List of Dewey Decimal classes

Example

301.1543012917492705694

Crossrefs

Sequence in context: A094921 A246522 A140166 * A011256 A294212 A220691

Adjacent sequences: A242779 A242780 A242781 * A242783 A242784 A242785

Keyword

cons,dumb,nonn,fini,full

Author

Robert G. Wilson v, May 22 2014

Status

approved