Monday, 23 May 2016

nt.number theory - Self-describing number sequence

I stumbled upon this number sequence while surfing the web. And I generated the next terms with my pc, and I was amazed to see, only the numbers 1 to 3 come up in megabytes of output. The sequence describes the previous number. The first term is one one, so 11 is the second one. The second consist 2 ones, so the third element is 21.



1
1 1
2 1
1 2 1 1
1 1 1 2 2 1




So now I'm wondering, if there's any good explanation why only the numbers 1 to 3 come up? Or does any higher number comes up later on?

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