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- From: dik@cwi.nl (Dik T. Winter)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
- Subject: Re: *graceful* number series
- Message-ID: <8391@charon.cwi.nl>
- Date: 17 Dec 92 22:21:29 GMT
- References: <102419@netnews.upenn.edu>
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- In article <102419@netnews.upenn.edu> yates@a.chem.upenn.edu (John H. Yates) writes:
- > I have a user that has a bad C code for generating
- > graceful numbers. Does anyone have such a beast
- > or a reference? I can't explain what a graceful
- > number is, but it is evidently a mathematically
- > accepted and defined beast.
- I think these are Ullams graceful numbers. The definition is by a
- process similar to Eratostenes sieve method for primes, although I do
- not remember the exact detail. If I am right Martin Gardner once
- featured them in one of his columns (but this is quite a few years
- ago, like the sixties). You might also look in the books by Martin
- Gardner, I am quite sure in one of those books is a reference to them.
- But being 'mathematically accepted', I would not know. Try sci.math.
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