On 2015-07-07 07:09, Neil Sloane wrote:
I prefer the less childish name Takagi curve (rather than Blancmange curve, which is harder to spell
Indeed catching APG himself, and in turn my unfortunate young student, unable to Google this revered mathematician's other accomplishments in comparison with Weierstrass. Now he hates Monty Python. --rwg
and reminds me of my mother's cooking) and, yes, it comes up in many OEIS sequences (sometimes tilted), especially those which are counting ON cells in cellular automata. See A160239 and arXiv:1503.01168.
Best regards Neil
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On Mon, Jul 6, 2015 at 7:01 PM, David Wilson <davidwwilson@comcast.net> wrote:
I notice images of this Blancmange function (or something similar) in several OEIS sequence graphs. One such sequence is A139250.
-----Original Message----- From: math-fun [mailto:math-fun-bounces@mailman.xmission.com] On Behalf Of James Buddenhagen Sent: Monday, July 06, 2015 12:23 PM To: math-fun Subject: [math-fun] Blancmange is a dessert
But APG was probably testing us. http://mathworld.wolfram.com/BlancmangeFunction.html