Goodstein sequence

noun

Etymology

Named after Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985), English mathematician.

  1. derived from mathematician

Definitions

  1. A sequence of natural numbers generated from an initial value m, starting with that…

    A sequence of natural numbers generated from an initial value m, starting with that value, and proceeding by performing certain operations on it. Although such sequences rapidly produce very large numbers, they always terminate at zero.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Goodstein sequence. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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