Look and Say
The “look and say” sequence is defined as follows: beginning with the term 1
, each subsequent term visually describes the digits appearing in the previous term. The first few terms are as follows:
1
11 <- 1 one
21 <- 2 ones
1211 <- 1 two, 1 one
111221 <- 1 one, 1 two, 2 ones
312211 <- 3 ones, 2 twos, 1 one
Given an integer n
, return the n
th term of this sequence as a string.
Constraints
1 ≤ n ≤ 40
https://binarysearch.com/problems/Look-and-Say
Examples
Example 1
Input
- n =
3
Output
- answer =
21
Example 2
Input
- n =
4
Output
- answer =
1211
Example 3
Input
- n =
5
Output
- answer =
111221
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