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Apparently these are completely fictional and there is no mathematical explanation. However, see the pseudo-wild numbers in A058971, A058972, A058973, A058977, A058988, A059175. See also the Lagarias article.

J. C. Lagarias, Wild and Wooley numbers, Amer. Math. Monthly, 113 (No. 2, 2006), 97-108.

P. Schogt, De Wilde Getallen, De Arbeiderspers, Amsterdam, 1998.

P. Schogt, The Wild Numbers, Four Walls Eight Windows Pub., New York, 2000.

D. F. Wallace, Rhetoric and the math melodrama, Science, 290 (Dec 22 2000), 2263-2267.

A number of other reviews of this book exist on the Web.

Another review

See A145833 for another version.

Sequence in context: A000460 A030115 A091929 this_sequence A141969 A142645 A001808

Adjacent sequences: A058880 A058881 A058882 this_sequence A058884 A058885 A058886

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N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com), Jan 08 2001

Thanks to Enoch Haga (Enokh(AT)comcast.net) for investigating these numbers [Jan 14, 2001].