Talk:Hofstadter Figure-Figure sequences: Difference between revisions

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::::: It is pretty common to say "''S(n)''" while meaning "sequence ''S'' with ''n'' denoting its index", and it's unambiguous. For one thing, the very first sentence already said "sequence of positive integers", which is pretty impossible to be misunderstood as "sequence of sequences of integers". This is how human discuss math using a natural language, there's no need to exercise a context-free parser here. --[[User:Ledrug|Ledrug]] 20:11, 23 October 2011 (UTC)
 
:::::: That's not the issue. S(n) would still be an integer sequence if S was a sequence of sequences. ToAfter resolvesome thisthought, conudrumthough, wethis haveappears to incorporatebe thean statementequivalent giving the first few values of S as a part of the definitioninterpretation. They are specified, of course (but if they had been omitted, then S(2) and R(3) would have been ambiguously defined). --[[User:Rdm|Rdm]] 11:32, 24 October 2011 (UTC)
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