Describe and add

[Michele Dondi]

On Tue, 6 Sep 2005 hv at crypt.org wrote:

> :Hmmm, the outputs of our programs differ from some point on. Thus mine or
> :yours is wrong - this is not exclusive or: they may both be wrong...
>
> Check Eric's original series of examples again: this is not Conway's
> "look and say" type of description. My guess (as encoded in my perl) was
> that the digits are sorted before describing, so that the description

You're right. I hadn't read carefully. I think that any further followup 
should be offlist(s). I set up Reply-To accordingly. Modify the recipients 
lists at will to include whomever you think is appropriate...

> In principle both are perfectly valid sequences though.

Indeed. Although I'm not that keen on base-dependent or self-descripting 
sequences - of course Conway's is an exception, especially since it's 
fundamentally not base dependent.


Michele
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