Aronson's sequence: Difference between revisions

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In [[Douglas Hofstadter]]'s book [[Metamagical Themas]], the sequence is credited to [[Jeffrey Aronson]] of Oxford, England. The sequence is infinite—and this statement requires some proof. The proof depends on the observation that the English names of all [[ordinal number (linguistics)|ordinal number]]s, except those that end in 2, must contain at least one "t".<ref>{{citation|title=Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern|first=Douglas R.|last=Hofstadter|authorlink=Douglas Hofstadter|publisher=Basic Books|year=1996|isbn=9780465045662|page=44|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o8jzWF7rD6oC&pg=PA44}}.</ref>

Aronson's sequence is closely related to [[autogram]]s . There are many generalizations of Aronson's sequence and research into the topic is ongoing.<ref name=benoit/><ref>{{Cite journal |arxiv = math/0305308|bibcode = 2003JIntS...6...22C|title = Numerical Analogues of Aronson's Sequence|journal = Journal of Integer Sequences|volume = 6|issue = 2003|pages = 22|last1 = Cloitre|first1 = Benoit|last2 = Sloane|first2 = N. J. A|last3 = Vandermast|first3 = Matthew J|year = 2003}}</ref>

{{harvtxt|Cloitre|Sloane|Vandermast|2003}} write that Aronson's sequence is "a classic example of a [[Self-reference|self-referential]] sequence."; However, they criticize it for being ambiguously defined due to the variation in naming of numbers over one hundred in different dialects of English. In its place, they offer several other self-referential sequences whose definitions rely only on mathematics rather than on the English language.<ref name=benoit>{{citation

however, they criticize it for being ambiguously defined due to the variation in naming of numbers over one hundred in different dialects of English. In its place, they offer several other self-referential sequences whose definitions rely only on mathematics rather than on the English language.<ref name=benoit>{{citation

| last1 = Cloitre | first1 = Benoit

| last2 = Sloane | first2 = N. J. A. | author2-link = Neil Sloane