Search: id:A001140 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A001140 %S A001140 4,14,1114,3114,132114,1113122114,311311222114,13211321322114, %T A001140 1113122113121113222114,31131122211311123113322114, %U A001140 132113213221133112132123222114 %N A001140 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 4). %C A001140 Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication. %D A001140 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. %D A001140 S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455. %D A001140 I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4. %H A001140 S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant %e A001140 E.g. the term after 3114 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 4", which gives 132114. %t A001140 RunLengthEncode[ x_List ] := (Through[ {First, Length}[ #1 ] ] &) /@ Split[ x ]; LookAndSay[ n_, d_:1 ] := NestList[ Flatten[ Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ] ] &, {d}, n - 1 ]; F[ n_ ] := LookAndSay[ n, 4 ][ [ n ] ]; Table[ FromDigits[ F[ n ] ], {n, 1, 11} ] - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 21 2007 %Y A001140 Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A006715, A001141, A001143, A001145, A001151, A001154. %Y A001140 Sequence in context: A003010 A118770 A112514 this_sequence A138488 A022508 A161741 %Y A001140 Adjacent sequences: A001137 A001138 A001139 this_sequence A001141 A001142 A001143 %K A001140 nonn,base,easy,nice %O A001140 1,1 %A A001140 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds