Kolakoski sequence

noun

Kolakoski sequence

noun

Etymology Named after the recreational mathematician William Kolakoski (1944–97), who discussed it in 1965, though subsequent research has revealed that it first appeared in a paper by Rufus Oldenburger in 1939.

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Mathematics, Sciences An infinite sequence of symbols {1,2} that is its own run-length encoding and the prototype for an infinite family of related sequences.

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