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

2024/05/17 by Dresden, Greg, Siehler, Jacob
#05A16 (Primary) #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2405.11103

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.

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