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

Article by Greg Dresden and Jacob Siehler
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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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LookTheresMoretoSayaboutConwaysLookandSaySequence
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article
date_added
2024-09-05
date_published
2024-12-07

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@article{LookTheresMoretoSayaboutConwaysLookandSaySequence,
	key = {LookTheresMoretoSayaboutConwaysLookandSaySequence},
	type = {article},
	title = {Look, There's More to Say about Conway's Look and Say Sequence},
	author = {Greg Dresden and Jacob Siehler},
	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.},
	comment = {},
	date_added = {2024-09-05},
	date_published = {2024-12-07},
	urls = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11103v1,http://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.11103v1},
	collections = {easily-explained,fun-maths-facts},
	url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/2405.11103v1 http://arxiv.org/pdf/2405.11103v1},
	year = 2024,
	urldate = {2024-09-05},
	archivePrefix = {arXiv},
	eprint = {2405.11103},
	primaryClass = {math.CO}
}