Search: id:A001145 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A001145 %S A001145 7,17,1117,3117,132117,1113122117,311311222117,13211321322117, %T A001145 1113122113121113222117,31131122211311123113322117, %U A001145 132113213221133112132123222117 %N A001145 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 7). %C A001145 Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication. %D A001145 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 A001145 S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455. %D A001145 I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4. %H A001145 S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant %e A001145 E.g. the term after 3117 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 7", which gives 132117. %t A001145 RunLengthEncode[x_List] := (Through[{First, Length}[ #1]] &) /@ Split[x]; LookAndSay[n_, d_: 1] := NestList[Flatten[Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ]] &, {d}, n - 1]; F[n_] := LookAndSay[n, 7][[n]]; Table[FromDigits[F[n]], {n, 1, 11}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 08 2009] %Y A001145 Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A006715, A001140, A001141, A001143, A001151, A001154. %Y A001145 Sequence in context: A102266 A113765 A153375 this_sequence A093139 A138491 A022511 %Y A001145 Adjacent sequences: A001142 A001143 A001144 this_sequence A001146 A001147 A001148 %K A001145 nonn,base,easy,nice %O A001145 1,1 %A A001145 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds