[seqfan] Re: Thue-Morse Odiousness

[David Wilson]

I believe the time-honored word is "putrescence."

See the last word in Edgar Allen Poe's "The Facts in the Case of M. 
Valdemar".



Tanya Khovanova wrote:
> All the names are not mine.
>
> Evil and odious numbers were invented by John Conway many years ago. I
> actually love the names. When I lecture about sequence, the evil
> numbers is the audience's favorite.
>
> The term putridity was suggested recently also by John Conway in a
> private email. I do not know if this term will stick - will see.
>
> Tanya
>
> --- Joerg Arndt <arndt at jjj.de> wrote:
>
>   
>> Quick remarks:
>>
>> Use the term parity, the parity is 0 if the number of
>> ones in the binary expansion is even, NOT the other way around.
>> parity(x) == bitcount(x) mod 2
>>
>> What is the point in using the terms
>> 'evil', 'odious', and 'putridity'?
>>
>> cheers,   jj
>>
>>
>> * Tanya Khovanova <mathoflove-seqfan at yahoo.com> [Jan 27. 2009 11:16]:
>>     
>>> Dear SeqFans,
>>>
>>> I finished another blog entry about sequences: Thue-Morse
>>>       
>> Odiousness:
>>     
>>> http://blog.tanyakhovanova.com/?p=97
>>>
>>> I think there is a lot of potential for putridity sequences.
>>>
>>> I apologize for being stupid and not creating a sequences category
>>> earlier. I write a lot about sequences and only now realized "What
>>>       
>> was
>>     
>>> I thinking?" and created this category.
>>>
>>> I marked my previous entries related to sequences and now the
>>>       
>> sequences
>>     
>>> category contains 13 entries.
>>>
>>> Tanya
>>>
>>>
>>>
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