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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
An infinite sequence of symbols {1,2} that is its own run-length encoding and the prototype for an infinite family of related sequences.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: mathematics, sciences
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History
Named after the recreational mathematician William Kolakoski (1944–97), who discussed it in 1965, though subsequent research has revealed that it first appeared in a paper by Rufus Oldenburger in 1939.
