arXiv:2405.11103math.CO2024-05-17

Look, There's More to Say about Conway's Look and Say Sequence

Greg Dresden, Jacob Siehler

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Abstract

We take Conway's Look and Say Sequence into a base-3 world, and we discover that there are only 24 interesting and irreducible sequences in base 3.

arXiv comments: 26 pages, one figure
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Subjects: math.COCombinatorics

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- > What is the reason why there are 92 elements in this mathematical method Those elements are necessary and sufficient for closure in exactly the weird formal automaton that the informal look-and-say sequence describes, i.e. once you have a graph and transition-states spelled…
  
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