Conway's Constant
The constant
(Sloane's A014715) giving the asymptotic rate of growth
of the number of Digits inthe 
th term of the Look and Say Sequence. 
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is 1, 3,3, 2, 2, 54, 5, 2, 1, 16, 1, 30, 1, 1, 1, 2, 2, 1, 14, 1, ... (Sloane's A014967).See also Conway Sequence, Cosmological Theorem, Look and Say Sequence
References
Conway, J. H. ``The Weird and Wonderful Chemistry of Audioactive Decay.'' §5.11 in Open Problems in Communications and Computation (Ed. T. M. Cover and B. Gopinath). New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 173-188, 1987. Conway, J. H. and Guy, R. K. ``The Look and Say Sequence.'' In The Book of Numbers. New York: Springer-Verlag, pp. 208-209, 1996. Finch, S. ``Favorite Mathematical Constants.'' http://www.mathsoft.com/asolve/constant/cnwy/cnwy.html Sloane, N. J. A.A014715 andA014967 in ``An On-Line Version of the Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences.''http://www.research.att.com/~njas/sequences/eisonline.html. Vardi, I. Computational Recreations in Mathematica. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 13-14, 1991.
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