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"Look and Say" applied to the whole sequence so far.
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%I #5 Apr 04 2015 09:59:11

%S 22,3233,424344,52535455,6263646566,727374757677,82838485868788,

%T 9293949596979899

%N "Look and Say" applied to the whole sequence so far.

%C a(1)=22 says "there are two 2's so far in the sequence (including my own digits)": this is true; a(2) says "there are three 2's and three 3's so far in the sequence (including my own digits)": this is true if we add the two 2's of a(1) to the unique 2 of a(2) and if we count the three 3's of a(2); etc. The sequence is finite (because there is no clear convention in noting more than 9 digits "d" under the traditional Look and Say rule; M. F. Hasler suggests for instance, that the next term could be [omitting the spaces]: 7 0 12 1 11 2 10 3 10 4 10 5 10 6 11 7 10 8 10 9).

%Y Look and Say: A005150

%K base,easy,nonn,fini

%O 1,1

%A _Eric Angelini_, Jan 29 2009