Published April 13, 2026 | https://doi.org/10.59350/f948c-kvv08

Unusual uses of OEIS sequences on GitHub

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I went hunting for references to the OEIS in open source code, and found some weird ones. There are not one, but two live-coding music frameworks that use OEIS sequences as a source for "anything that can be sequenced" in music. I'm guessing that's used for choosing pseudorandom melodies, interesting rhythyms, or how to overlap tracks in different ways. The first project is called mercury, which is advertised as having "an extensive library of algorithms to generate or transform numbersequences that can modulate parameters.

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I went hunting for references to the OEIS in open source code, and found some weird ones. There are not one, but two live-coding music frameworks that use OEIS sequences as a source for "anything that can be sequenced" in music. I'm guessing that's used for choosing pseudorandom melodies, interesting rhythyms, or how to overlap tracks in different ways.

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UUID
b6811d98-6334-4f2a-b29d-e5da1ae535bd
GUID
https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-04-13-0700/
URL
https://www.jeremykun.com/shortform/2026-04-13-0700/

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Issued
2026-04-13T14:00:00
Updated
2026-04-13T14:00:00