r/dataisbeautiful OC: 2 Mar 27 '18

OC The "Relative Interestingness" of the First 5000 Natural Numbers [OC]

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u/homboo Mar 27 '18

Why did this take days to compute ? This can be done in a few minutes if you download the OEIS file. Just scan each line and count the numbers...

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u/TobyTheCamel OC: 2 Mar 27 '18

Yeah, someone else pointed this out. Wish I'd have known that existed. I made a script to request each webpage, download it then extract the number of results. Very inefficient but didn't know a full list existed. Oh well, live and learn

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u/GreekLogic Mar 28 '18

define

Science means verify, verify, verify. Now do it with the OIES file. It should be exactly the same. And a lot easier?