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As a kid I did a thing with my fingers where I'd start with this simple pattern (mapped to some finger motions): DOWN UP UP DOWN This is the UP-pattern. The D
by furyofantares 3y ago
As a kid I did a thing with my fingers where I'd start with this simple pattern (mapped to some finger motions):
DOWN UP UP DOWN
This is the UP-pattern. The DOWN-pattern is UP DOWN DOWN UP.
Then I'd do it again, but replacing every DOWN with the DOWN-pattern and every UP with the UP-pattern.
Then I'd try to do it again for that pattern. I don't remember how deep I could get. It wasn't very far! But I loved doing it.
Decades later I met someone who had done the exact same thing as a kid, though he called it LEFT RIGHT and moved his tongue around to do it, rather than tapping it out with his fingers.
Technically I ALSO did it left to right, I just didn't think of it that way. For UP-pattern I'd tap, or really roll/drum, left-to-right, index-middle-ring-pinky. And DOWN-pattern was tapped right to left.
- mabbo 3y agoI also did this as a kid. As an adult I discovered it's called the Thue-Morse sequence. https://oeis.org/A010060 https://oeis.org/A010060 It has a lot of fascinating properties that I think you'll be as delighted to learn about as I was.
- mxmilkiib 3y agoI had that also, compulsively running through it in my head or tapping of fingers or gnashing my teeth in the pattern, then there was a time with a feaver dream.. some crazy thoughts!