Post #1186303
2026-04-13 17:11 UTC
I went hunting for references to the OEIS in open source code, and found some weird ones.
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@j2kun@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-13 17:11
There are not one, but two live-coding music frameworks that use OEIS sequences as a source for "anything that can be sequenced" in music. I'm guessing that's used for choosing pseudorandom melodies, interesting rhythyms, or how to overlap tracks in different ways.
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@svat@mathstodon.xyz 2026-04-13 20:51
@j2kun For something in the other direction, here is an OEIS sequence based on open-source code: https://oeis.org/A357677 "Powers of either 3 or 5 or 7 (and 0)." (Based on a decision made in the ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems: explained at https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/463473/superblock-replicas-in-ext4 for example.)