Look and Say sequence

Known as: Look and Say sequence

Each term is a verbal description of the previous term's digits.

For example, the sixth term describes the fifth term as "three ones, two twos, and one one".

The first 11 terms (starting from n=1) are:

1 11 21 1211 111221 312211 13112221 1113213211 13211311123113112211 11131221133112132113212221 3113112221232112111312211312113211

References

On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences