I'm trying to say "it counts the number of times a given value repeats sequentially" in a list, meaning it finds the maximum number of times a value occurs in a row in a list. I know there's a word for it, but I can't remember it.
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Repeats sequentially is the wrong expression, as OP suspects. The normal phrasing would be...
It counts the number of times a given value appears consecutively.
answered Aug 23, 2011 at 16:59
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@Karl Knechtel: It's a very fine (possibly non-existant) distinction, but I have the feeling I prefer appears in respect of multiple instances, and occurs if there's only one or a very small number. So thanks, and I'll edit to reflect that! :) Commented Aug 23, 2011 at 22:29
How about: '(Occurs) one after another'?
… or, perhaps the word you're looking for is 'consecutively'?
EDIT: as FumbleFingers beat me to it, here's something more elaborate (perhaps not what you want):
"It shows the quantity a given value repeats itself consecutively".
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I think "repeats [itself] consecutively" is at least somewhat tautological, in that repetion is implicit in anything consecutive. Commented Aug 23, 2011 at 17:58
The computerese term I would use is "recur."
