Finding the next number in this sequence using Python || Devlog

I made a Python program to find any term of this series. This video shows the code I wrote and outlines the basic function of the program.
One thing I want to clarify in this video is that each term also tells you what order all of the digits of the previous term came in, not just the number of each like I said in the video.

[@StarNova9]

I paused at 0:45 to try and figure it out myself in C++. Interesting idea!

[@nextProgram]

Cool! Not many people watched this video so I'm glad you liked it haha

[@amaarquadri]

Try plotting x versus the number of digits in the xth term of the sequence. It's pretty interesting.

[@erikaordog8288]

Is this an intellectual exercise, or are there applications for this sequence?

[@nextProgram]

Erika Ordog it was just for fun. I don’t think the sequence has any applications. I don’t think it even has a name

[@immathiasyde]

Some compression algorithms use this logic of counting how many 1 and 0 are in order with each other. Like 00000111 would become 5:0, 3:1 where the prefix is the count of the suffix

[@amaarquadri]

@@nextProgram It's called the look and say sequence

[@Leo-rm4qq]

0:15 i tried to figure it out myself and said the numbers out loud as you said, but in German, I didn’t found it out so I watch further and found out that the problem where that in German are two different types of 1 (that have a slightly difference in meaning)

[@nextProgram]

Leo Interesting!

[@jakehffn]

Decided to try to solve it and then tried to make it as small as possible. Ever do coding golf? I couldn't figure out how to get rid of any more lines, but was able to get 7: from itertools import groupby def sequence(num): it = "1" for x in range(num): print(it) it = "".join(list(map(lambda x: str(len(x)) + x[0], ("".join(group) for key, group in groupby(it))))) return it Obviously much less readable lol

[@teddieo7647]

How do I get enough processing power for that?

[@nextProgram]

Hi, maybe getting a good computer

[@teddieo7647]

How about a laptop?

[@nextProgram]

@@teddieo7647 Yeah, that's what I'm using

[@surnthedog]

Is it bad that I knew the answer as soon as I looked at the thumbnail lol