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I wonder why the title of the sequence isn't set to "Hofstadter's sequence" since that seems to be what it's called according to A030124 when it refers back to this one

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Hofstadter introduces several sequences in GEB, [0] may be an interesting submission on its own but I was especially captivated by this self-referencing one. Plus a title including both Hofstadter's sequence and a description is too long for HN and I preferred the descriptive one

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hofstadter_sequence

I meant the title as it appears in OEIS, not as it appears on HN :)

Ah :)

From my (limited) experience the OEIS titles lean strongly to the descriptive side too. But maybe also to avoid ambiguity regarding to which one is it from his sequences?

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