OFFSET
1,2
COMMENTS
Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication.
a(n), A001140, A001141, A001143, A001145, A001151 and A001154 are all identical apart from the last digit of each term (the seed). This is because digits other than 1, 2 and 3 never arise elsewhere in the terms (other than at the end of each of them) of look-and-say sequences of this type (as is mentioned by Carmine Suriano in A006751). - Chayim Lowen, Jul 16 2015
a(n+1) - a(n) is divisible by 10^5 for n > 5. - Altug Alkan, Dec 04 2015
REFERENCES
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
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, Conway's Constant [Broken link]
S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant [From the Wayback Machine]
EXAMPLE
The term after 3110 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 0", which gives 132110.
MATHEMATICA
PROG
(PARI) A001155(n, a=0)={ while(n--, my(c=1); for(j=2, #a=Vec(Str(a)), if( a[j-1]==a[j], a[j-1]=""; c++, a[j-1]=Str(c, a[j-1]); c=1)); a[#a]=Str(c, a[#a]); a=concat(a)); a } \\ M. F. Hasler, Jun 30 2011
(Python)
from itertools import accumulate, groupby, repeat
def summarize(n, _): return int("".join(str(len(list(g)))+k for k, g in groupby(str(n))))
def aupton(terms): return list(accumulate(repeat(0, terms), summarize))
print(aupton(11)) # Michael S. Branicky, Jun 28 2022
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy,nice
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved