Talk:Ormiston pairs

Should Ormiston pairs be disjoint?

Does anyone know the answer to this?

I'd previously assumed they should be - though it makes no difference if they are or not when considering numbers up to 10 million.

However, it does make a difference for numbers up to 100 million - there are 34,901 pairs in total of which 34,876 are disjoint. --PureFox (talk) 16:36, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

I don't see anything in the definition used here which requires them to be disjoint. --Rdm (talk) 16:59, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Although the remarks in OEIS are confusing, I think you're right so I'm going to change my solutions accordingly which is a minor simplification. --PureFox (talk) 17:10, 31 January 2023 (UTC)

Suggesting a task Ormiston triplets? Perhaps a new OEIS sequence? In this age of artificial intelligence perhaps rc requires a bot which checks OEIS daily and autonomously generates an rc task for each new sequence. I read somewhere that the number of sequences on OEIS increases by about 40 a day, so that should keep everyone busy.--Nigel Galloway (talk) 14:32, 1 February 2023 (UTC)