[seqfan] Re: Thue-Morse Odiousness
Tanya Khovanova
mathoflove-seqfan at yahoo.com
Fri Jan 30 02:03:50 CET 2009
David,
It is the first time I hear both word putridity or putrescence. I like
them both. Would you like to leave a comment in my blog so other people
can judge or use your idea?
Tanya
--- David Wilson <dwilson at gambitcomm.com> wrote:
> 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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