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# Look-and-Say
## Goal
Starting with a digit, count how often this digit occurs in succession.
Then repeat the same procedure for given number of `iterations`.
Given an `iteration-count` generate and output the `look-and-say` sequence.
The sequence starts with `1`. Subsequent numbers are derived by describing the previous number in terms of consecutive digits.
To generate an entry of the sequence, examine the previous entry.
Read off the digits of the previous entry, counting the number of digits in groups of the same digit.
In human terms this is like speaking out loud how often each digit appears consecutively.
**Keep in mind:** the output becomes very long very quickly.
### Input
`iterations` - a numeric value how often the process is repeated
### Output
A numeric value representing a stream of occurrences and digits.
The head of the generated sequence after iterating by the given input.
### Constraints
1 <= `iterations` <= 10
**Start value** = 1
* 0 <= `iterations` <= 28
* **Start value** = 1
### Examples
Assuming the start value is `0` (**attention:** value differs from real start value for demostraton purposes) and `iteration` is 5:
0\. iteration: `0` (reading: *one 1*)
1\. iteration: `10` (reading: *two 1s*)
2\. iteration: `1110` (reading: *one 2 and one 1*)
3\. iteration: `3110` (reading: *one 1 and one two and two 1s*)
4\. iteration: `132110` (reading: *three 1s and two 2s and one 1*)
5\. iteration: `1113122110`
* for input `0` iterations, output `1`, i.e. the starting value)
* for input `1` iterations, output `11`, i.e. reading the previous entry `1` as `one 1`
* for input `2` iterations, output `21`, i.e. reading the previous entry `11` as `two 1s`
* for input `3` iterations, output `1211`, i.e. reading the previous entry `21` as `one 2 one 1`
* for input `4` iterations, output `111221`, i.e. reading the previous entry `1211` as `one 1 one 2 two 1`