On: Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

[paulpauper]

in theory anyone can map any sequence to an interpolating polynomial, but I think those would get rejected.

Also: meta-sequences: a sequence of integers that has no notable properties about them or that dosn't comprise a sequence

[StevenXC → paulpauper]

I like the phrasing used by https://houseofgraphs.org/ — while there are an infinite number of mathematical objects in any category, there are only "a few thousand that can be considered really interesting."

[nurettin → StevenXC]

The same with chess and go. There are way too many move order combinations, but only a few thousand interesting ones.

[tromp → nurettin]

Happy to have authored A094777, Number of legal positions in Go played on an n X n grid (each group must have at least one liberty), [1] and A269417, Number of Go games on n X n board with no repeating position and suicide allowed. [2].

[1] https://oeis.org/A094777

[2] https://oeis.org/A269417

[MatthiasPortzel → paulpauper]

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2016/

[omoikane → MatthiasPortzel]

I can't find any sequences that list Randall Munroe as the author, but there are several sequences that referenced xkcd:

https://oeis.org/search?q=xkcd&go=Search

https://oeis.org/search?q=randall+munroe&go=Search

[infogulch → omoikane]

Those were great.

I like how he doesn't hold back on the labels, but still accepts some 'dumb' sequences: https://oeis.org/search?q=dumb like this one: https://oeis.org/A104175

[cubefox → paulpauper]

See also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox