Stuttering look and say sequences and a challenger to Conway's most complicated algebraic number from the silliest source

2022/06/23 by Jonathan Comes, Comes, Jonathan
Mathematics · Physics and Astronomy · #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #History and Theory of Mathematics #Quantum Mechanics and Applications #Statistics Education and Methodologies

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2206.11991

openalex publication_date 2022/06/23 · openalex created_date 2022/06/29 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28

Abstract

We introduce stuttering look and say sequences and describe their chemical structure in the spirit of Conway's work on audioactive decay. We show the growth rate of a stuttering look and say sequence is an algebraic integer of degree 415.

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