Goodstein sequence
nounEtymology
Named after Reuben Goodstein (1912–1985), English mathematician.
- derived from mathematician
Definitions
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.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA