Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub
2 days ago
- #music programming
- #OEIS sequences
- #open source code
- Two live-coding music frameworks, Mercury and Ziffers, use OEIS sequences for generating musical elements like melodies, rhythms, and track overlaps.
- Mercury includes Fibonacci-like sequences (e.g., A000045, A006190), while Ziffers has weirder ones like Recamán's sequence (A005132) and the Inventory Sequence (A342585), raising questions about how such music sounds.
- A Kobo e-reader app, Plato, uses A000041 (number of partitions of n) for pen size options without explanation.
- The GC Wizard geocaching app includes hard-coded OEIS sequences and formulas, imagining cache hunters using sequences like the look-and-say sequence in the field.