Search: id:A001154 Results 1-1 of 1 results found. %I A001154 %S A001154 9,19,1119,3119,132119,1113122119,311311222119,13211321322119, %T A001154 1113122113121113222119,31131122211311123113322119, %U A001154 132113213221133112132123222119 %N A001154 Describe the previous term! (method A - initial term is 9). %C A001154 Method A = 'frequency' followed by 'digit'-indication. %D A001154 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 A001154 S. R. Finch, Mathematical Constants, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 452-455. %D A001154 I. Vardi, Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Addison-Wesley, Redwood City, CA, 1991, p. 4. %H A001154 S. R. Finch, Conway's Constant %e A001154 E.g. the term after 3119 is obtained by saying "one 3, two 1's, one 9", which gives 132119. %t A001154 RunLengthEncode[x_List] := (Through[{First, Length}[ #1]] &) /@ Split[x]; LookAndSay[n_, d_: 1] := NestList[Flatten[Reverse /@ RunLengthEncode[ # ]] &, {d}, n - 1]; F[n_] := LookAndSay[n, 9][[n]]; Table[FromDigits[F[n]], {n, 1, 11}] [From Zerinvary Lajos (zerinvarylajos(AT)yahoo.com), Jul 08 2009] %Y A001154 Cf. A001155, A005150, A006751, A006715, A001140, A001141, A001143, A001145, A001151. %Y A001154 Sequence in context: A153316 A041160 A089565 this_sequence A138493 A022513 A156746 %Y A001154 Adjacent sequences: A001151 A001152 A001153 this_sequence A001155 A001156 A001157 %K A001154 nonn,base,easy,nice %O A001154 1,1 %A A001154 N. J. A. Sloane (njas(AT)research.att.com). Search completed in 0.001 seconds