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On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

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Also known as OEIS, Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences

online database of integer sequences

Key facts

Founded
1964 ; 62 years ago ( 1964 )
Predecessor s
Handbook of Integer Sequences, Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences
Created by
Neil Sloane
Chairman
Neil Sloane
President
Russ Cox
Url
oeis .org
Commercial
No
Registration
Optional
Launched
1996 ; 30 years ago ( 1996 )
Content license
Creative Commons CC BY-SA 4.0

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Source code

This repository holds a Git-formatted export of the content of the Online Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. Note that this repository does not accept pull requests. To suggest changes to the OEIS, use the OEIS web site. The main OEIS entries are in the seq subdirectory. The entry for A123456 is stored in seq/A123/A123456.seq ; the extra layer of subdirectories allows for more efficient manipulation by Git and some file systems. Each .seq file records the sequence entry in the OEIS internal format. A sequence in the database may have supporting files linked from the sequence entry's %H lines; these are recorded in the files subdirectory tree. Each file has a name beginning with the sequence number, possibly with the leading A changed to a or b. For example, A000003 has a supporting file b000003.txt stored in files/A000/b000003.txt . This Git repository only holds metadata about supporting files. The actual content is maintained in Git LFS. and the repository is configured not to fetch all Git LFS data by default during git clone . To use Git LFS, you need to download and install it. See the Git LFS home page for details. Then run

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
online database
Founded by
Neil Sloane
Main subject
integer sequence
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inception
1996-00-00
Alexa rank
43048
Commons category
OEIS
maintained by WikiProject
WikiProject Software
source code repository URL
github.com/oeis/oeisdata
translation contribution URL
oeis.org/translate.html
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Encyclopedic overview

The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (OEIS) is an online database of integer sequences. It was created and maintained by Neil Sloane while researching at AT&T Labs. He transferred the intellectual property and hosting of the OEIS to the OEIS Foundation in 2009, and is its chairman.

OEIS records information on integer sequences of interest to both professional and amateur mathematicians, and is widely cited. As of November 2025, it contains over 390,000 sequences, and is growing by approximately 30 entries per day.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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