Search: id:A001141 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A001141 %S A001141 5,15,1115,3115,132115,1113122115,311311222115,13211321322115, %T A001141 1113122113121113222115,31131122211311123113322115, %U A001141 132113213221133112132123222115 %N A001141 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 5). %C A001141 Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication. %D A001141 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 A001141 S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455. %D A001141 I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4. %H A001141 S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant %e A001141 E.g. the term after 3115 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 5", which gives 132115. %t A001141 RunLengthEncode[ x_List ] := (Through[ {First, Length}[ #1 ] ] &) /@ Split[ x ]; LookAndSay[ n_, d_:1 ] := NestList[ Flatten[ Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ] ] &, {d}, n - 1 ]; F[ n_ ] := LookAndSay[ n, 5 ][ [ n ] ]; Table[ FromDigits[ F[ n ] ], {n, 1, 11} ] - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 21 2007 %Y A001141 Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A006715, A001140, A001143, A001145, A001151, A001154. %Y A001141 Sequence in context: A053926 A112273 A112515 this_sequence A138489 A022509 A138074 %Y A001141 Adjacent sequences: A001138 A001139 A001140 this_sequence A001142 A001143 A001144 %K A001141 nonn,base,easy,nice %O A001141 1,1 %A A001141 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds