Search: id:A006715 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A006715 M2965 %S A006715 3,13,1113,3113,132113,1113122113,311311222113,13211321322113, %T A006715 1113122113121113222113,31131122211311123113322113, %U A006715 132113213221133112132123222113 %N A006715 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 3). %C A006715 Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication. %D A006715 N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence). %D A006715 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 A006715 S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455. %D A006715 I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4. %H A006715 S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant %H A006715 Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Link to a section of The World of Mathematics. %e A006715 E.g. the term after 3113 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 3", which gives 132113. %t A006715 RunLengthEncode[ x_List ] := (Through[ {First, Length}[ #1 ] ] &) /@ Split[ x ]; LookAndSay[ n_, d_:1 ] := NestList[ Flatten[ Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ] ] &, {d}, n - 1 ]; F[ n_ ] := LookAndSay[ n, 3 ][ [ n ] ]; Table[ FromDigits[ F[ n ] ], {n, 1, 11} ] - Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Mar 21 2007 %Y A006715 Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A001140, A001141, A001143, A001145, A001151, A001154. %Y A006715 Sequence in context: A092540 A118628 A112513 this_sequence A138487 A022507 A108583 %Y A006715 Adjacent sequences: A006712 A006713 A006714 this_sequence A006716 A006717 A006718 %K A006715 nonn,base,easy,nice %O A006715 1,1 %A A006715 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds