[sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread ulfarsson
Hi, the function sloane_find seems to be broken after the recent updates to The online encyclopedia of integer sequences, oies.org. For example sloane_find([1,2,3,4,5,6]) does not find anything in the database. The oies has also taken down the stripped version of their database at

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread Mike Hansen
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:43 AM, ulfarsson ulfars...@gmail.com wrote: the function sloane_find seems to be broken after the recent updates to The online encyclopedia of integer sequences, oies.org. For example sloane_find([1,2,3,4,5,6]) does not find anything in the database. This is

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread William Stein
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 11:29 AM, Mike Hansen mhan...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 7:43 AM, ulfarsson ulfars...@gmail.com wrote: the function sloane_find seems to be broken after the recent updates to The online encyclopedia of integer sequences, oies.org. For example

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread Mike Hansen
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: Unfortunately, I looked at the new OEIS end user license.  Very, very sadly, redistributing the above file is a blatant violation of these terms (see Section 2, number 2). So Mike, please remove it at some point so I don't

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread Dan Drake
On Thu, 25 Nov 2010 at 12:15PM -0800, William Stein wrote: Unfortunately, I looked at the new OEIS end user license. Very, very sadly, redistributing the above file is a blatant violation of these terms (see Section 2, number 2). So Mike, please remove it at some point so I don't get into

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread David Joyner
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 3:15 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: ... Hi, ... http://oeis.org/wiki/The_OEIS_End-User_License_Agreement rant I think this is a very, very sad direction for OEIS to have gone in, with Sloane passing it off under such terms.  It's really a shame.

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread Tom Boothby
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 12:15 PM, William Stein wst...@gmail.com wrote: I encourage people to read the terms here http://oeis.org/wiki/The_OEIS_End-User_License_Agreement to make sure I'm not misunderstanding them.  And if you're the sort of person (like me), who has contributed to OEIS, to

Re: [sage-devel] Searching OEIS is broken

2010-11-25 Thread Tom Boothby
Two technical solutions: 1) have 'make' download the database. 2) Before we make each release, dump a few gigabytes onto the OEIS wiki, such that what we distribute is well under 5% of their aggregate content. (tongue firmly in cheek) -- To post to this group, send an email to