[seqfan] Re: paperfolding and continued fraction expansion

[Olivier Gerard]

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On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 17:03, Dimitri Hendriks <diem at cs.vu.nl> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am new to this list, and wonder what it is you discuss here. Is it mainly
> about the encyclopedia, or is it about sequences, their properties,
> classification etc. in a wider sense? And, are all "seqfans" mathematicians
> (I am not)?
>
> Then about a possible contribution linking sequences A014577 and A088431
> (and so A007400):
> I experimentally found (no proof yet) that the sequence of run lengths of
> the regular paperfolding sequence (A014577) is related to A007400, the
> continued fraction expansion of the sum of the series 1/2,1/4,1/16,1/256,...
> . Namely it is sequence A088431, which is the tail^2 of A007400 with the
> values halved.
>
> A "run" is a maximal subword of consecutive identical digits. Thus, writing
> a for A014577 and b for A088431, it appears that we have
>
>  b(n) = length of n-th run of a ,
>
> or as a haskell program:
>
> b = rls a
>
> where rls is a function mapping bitstreams to streams of nats defined by:
>
> rls xs = rls_0 xs 0
> where
> rls_0 (0 : xs) n = rls_0 xs (n+1)
> rls_0 (1 : xs) n = n : rls_1 xs 1
> rls_1 (0 : xs) n = n : rls_0 xs 1
> rls_1 (1 : xs) n = rls_1 xs (n+1)
>
> Is this relationship between the paperfolding sequence and the continued
> fraction expansion corresponding to the sum of the series 1/2^(2^n) a know
> relationship? Is there a proof?
>
> Thanks,
> Dimitri Hendriks
>
>
>
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