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A001154 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 9). 11
9, 19, 1119, 3119, 132119, 1113122119, 311311222119, 13211321322119, 1113122113121113222119, 31131122211311123113322119, 132113213221133112132123222119 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

1,1

COMMENTS

Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication.

REFERENCES

J. H. Conway, The weird and wonderful chemistry of audioactive decay, in T. M. Cover and Gopinath, eds., Open Problems in Communication and Computation, Springer, NY 1987, pp. 173-188.

S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455.

I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4.

LINKS

T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..20

S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant

EXAMPLE

E.g. the term after 3119 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 9", which gives 132119.

MATHEMATICA

RunLengthEncode[x_List] := (Through[{First, Length}[ #1]] &) /@ Split[x]; LookAndSay[n_, d_: 1] := NestList[Flatten[Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ]] &, {d}, n - 1]; F[n_] := LookAndSay[n, 9][[n]]; Table[FromDigits[F[n]], {n, 1, 11}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 08 2009]

CROSSREFS

Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A006715, A001140, A001141, A001143, A001145, A001151.

Sequence in context: A153316 A041160 A089565 * A177368 A138493 A022513

Adjacent sequences:  A001151 A001152 A001153 * A001155 A001156 A001157

KEYWORD

nonn,base,easy,nice

AUTHOR

N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com).

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