Look and Say Sequence in Dyalog APL

Опубликовано: 15 Июль 2026
на канале: Dyalog
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The look-and-say sequence, also known as the Morris Number sequence, takes a sequence of numbers and returns a new sequence which describes the consecutive runs of identical numbers in the input.

This version uses partitioning and nested arrays.

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