Etymology

Thue-Morse sequence

Today it means: The infinitely long binary sequence obtained by starting with 0 and successively appending the Boolean complement of the sequence obtained thus far. Full definition →

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The story

Named after Axel Thue and Marston Morse, who studied it.

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