If you love math puzzles, you'll love this sequence, discovered by mathematician Lionel Levine in 1997. Neil Sloane, founder of the OEIS (On-line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences), explains the Levine Sequence – which escalates incredibly quickly – for numberphiles at any math level.
Math's incredibly fun "Levine Sequence" simply explained
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