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Proof of Conway's lost cosmological theorem
Shalosh B. Ekhad and Doron Zeilberger
Abstract.
John Horton Conway's Cosmological Theorem about sequences like 1, 11,
21, 1211, 111221, 312211,..., for which no extant proof existed, is
given a new proof, this time hopefully for good.
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- ERA Amer. Math. Soc. 03 (1997), pp. 78-82
- Publisher Identifier: S 1079-6762(97)00026-7
- 1991 Mathematics Subject Classification. Primary 05Axx
- Received by the editors May 6, 1997
- Posted on August 21, 1997
- Communicated by Ronald Graham
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Shalosh B. Ekhad
Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-mail address: ekhad@math.temple.edu
Doron Zeilberger
Department of Mathematics, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19122
E-mail address: zeilberg@math.temple.edu
Supported in part by the NSF
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