OFFSET
1,1
COMMENTS
Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication.
a(n+1) - a(n) is divisible by 10^5 for n > 5. - Altug Alkan, Dec 04 2015
REFERENCES
S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455.
N. J. A. Sloane and Simon Plouffe, The Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences, Academic Press, 1995 (includes this sequence).
I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4.
LINKS
T. D. Noe, Table of n, a(n) for n=1..20
Éric Brier, Rémi Géraud-Stewart, David Naccache, Alessandro Pacco, and Emanuele Troiani, Stuttering Conway Sequences Are Still Conway Sequences, arXiv:2006.06837 [math.DS], 2020.
Éric Brier, Rémi Géraud-Stewart, David Naccache, Alessandro Pacco, and Emanuele Troiani, The Look-and-Say The Biggest Sequence Eventually Cycles, arXiv:2006.07246 [math.DS], 2020.
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.
S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant [Broken link]
S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant [From the Wayback Machine]
Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics, Look and Say Sequence.
EXAMPLE
The term after 3113 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 3", which gives 132113.
MATHEMATICA
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, 11} ] (* Zerinvary Lajos, Mar 21 2007 *)
PROG
(Perl)
# This outputs the first n elements of the sequence, where n is given on the command line.
$s = 3;
for (2..shift @ARGV) {
print "$s, ";
$s =~ s/(.)\1*/(length $&).$1/eg;
}
print "$s\n";
## Arne 'Timwi' Heizmann (timwi(AT)gmx.net), Mar 12 2008
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn,base,easy,nice
AUTHOR
STATUS
approved