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Sequences in the News

• Aug 17 2021 Swiss scientists announce they have calculated π (A000796) to 62.8 trillion digits in only 108 days.
• Dec 25 2018 German Heise-News "integers, please" column explains A003173 and OEIS.
• Feb 01 2018 Alphabet announced a $8,589,869,056 = $A000396(6) stock buyback.
• Jan 03 2018 Largest known term of A000043 announced: 77232917.
• Nov 18 2016 PrimeGrid proves that 10223 is not a Sierpinski number, since 10223 × 2 31172165 + 1 is prime. So no changes to A076336 for now.
• Sep 14 2016 Tom Greer discovers the twin primes 2996863034895 × 2 1290000 ± 1 using PrimeGrid, TwinGen and LLR.
• Jan 19 2016 Largest known term of A000043 announced: 74207281, also discovered by Curtis Cooper.

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2010s

• Mar 02 2014 Fredrik Johansson announces a computation of the partition number p(10 20) ≈ 1.8381765 × 10 11140086259, the largest known term of A000041.
• Dec 06 2013 Microsoft launches a challenge to find large non-Mersenne primes, A138837.
• May 13 2013 H. A. Helfgott submits a proof of the weak Goldbach conjecture, i.e. for odd numbers as sums of three primes: A007963 has no more zeroes.
• Jan 25 2013 Curtis Cooper discovers a new member of A000043, 57885161. Its index is not known but is at least 48.
• Jan 13 2013 The winners of the contest for new sequences in the OEIS at JMM 2013 were announced: A187824, A187771, and A187761.
• Sep 21 2012 Nick Berry, founder of Data Genetics, finds that the 17th most common 10-digit ATM PIN is 3141592654 (see A011546).
• Jun 05 2012 A transit of Venus is viewable from Earth. The next one won't be until the year 2117 = A171467(55).
• Nov 20 2011. The OEIS adds its two hundred thousandth sequence, A200000.
• Mar 14 2011 Michael Hartl argues $\scriptstyle \pi \approx 3.14159$ (see A000796) should be replaced with $\scriptstyle \tau =2\pi \approx 6.2831853$ (see A019692) as the more important constant.
• Jan 2011 Ken Ono and his team announce the discovery of a fractal structure to the partition numbers (A000041) and an explicit finite formula.
• Jul 11 2010. GIMPS announces that $\scriptstyle 2^{20996011}-1\,$ is indeed $\scriptstyle a(40)\,$ of A000668 (also confirming the corresponding terms in A000043 and A000396), since all numbers between 13466917 and 20996011 exclusive have now been shown to produce composite Mersenne numbers.
• May 12 2010 Christian Mauduit and Joël Rivat prove Gelfond's 1968 conjecture that "on average, there are as many prime numbers for which the sum of decimal digits is even as prime numbers for which it is odd," according to a press release from CNRS. See A199339.

2000s

• September 15, 2008 GIMPS announces the two largest known primes so far, Mersenne primes with exponents being 43112609 and 237156667 respectively.
• November 7, 2004 The OEIS adds its one hundred thousandth sequence, A100000. (see OEIS 100K E-Party)
• 2004 Ben Green and Terrence Tao prove that there are sequences of primes in arithmetic progression, such as A033168, of any length.
• August 6, 2002 Agrawal, Kayal and Saxena from the Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur showed that it is easy to determine if a given number is prime. See A000961 and A000040.
• November 21, 2001 "Number of strongly eutactic lattices in dimension n", is selected as a contest winner to be given A065536. A065535 was a runner-up.
• August 23, 2001 Sequences A057142, A057143, and A057144, authored by Arran Fernandez, discussed in the Guardian after Arran became the youngest to pass the GCSE at age 5 years, 11 months.

Earlier

• 1952. Robinson discovers the 16 th Mersenne prime.

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