paperfolding

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noun

The folding of paper; origami

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Meanings

nounpaperfolding (uncountable)
  1. uncountableThe folding of paper; origami

    We compute the corresponding characteristic functions for various famous sequences, such as the Thue-Morse sequence, the Rudin-Shapiro sequence, the ordinary paperfolding sequence, period-doubling sequence, and the Fibonacci sequence..

    2015, Luke Schaeffer, Jeffrey Shallit, “Closed, Rich, Privileged, Trapezoidal, and Balanced Words in Automatic Sequences”, in arXiv

Origin

From paper + folding.

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Chicago

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