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a number that describes itself out loud, then never shuts up.

means a sequence where each term is generated by reading the previous term aloud, digit by digit, describing counts of consecutive same digits.

from popularized by john conway in the 1980s, who analyzed it so thoroughly he derived a constant, the conway constant, describing how fast it grows.

for instance

conway's cosmological theoremproves every sequence eventually splits into 92 elemental substrings

atomic elements namingconway named the 92 building blocks after chemical elements

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