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A187221
First differences of A187220.
5
0, 1, 2, 4, 8, 8, 8, 16, 24, 16, 8, 16, 24, 24, 32, 56, 64, 32, 8, 16, 24, 24, 32, 56, 64, 40, 32, 56, 72, 80, 120, 176, 160, 64, 8, 16, 24, 24, 32, 56, 64, 40, 32, 56, 72, 80, 120, 176, 160, 72, 32, 56, 72, 80, 120, 176, 168, 112, 120, 184, 224, 280, 416, 512, 384, 128, 8
OFFSET
0,3
COMMENTS
Number of gulls (or G-toothpicks) added at n-th stage to the gullwing structure of A187220.
Apparently this is the connection between A147582 and A139251. - Omar E. Pol, Mar 11 2011
LINKS
David Applegate, The movie version
David Applegate, Omar E. Pol and N. J. A. Sloane, The Toothpick Sequence and Other Sequences from Cellular Automata, Congressus Numerantium, Vol. 206 (2010), 157-191. [There is a typo in Theorem 6: (13) should read u(n) = 4.3^(wt(n-1)-1) for n >= 2.]
FORMULA
a(0)=0. a(1)=1. It appears that a(n) = 2*A139251(n-1), for n >= 2.
EXAMPLE
If written as an irregular triangle begins:
0,
1,
2,
4,
8,8,
8,16,24,16,
8,16,24,24,32,56,64,32,
8,16,24,24,32,56,64,40,32,56,72,80,120,176,160,64,
...
Also there is another version in which the layout of the irregular triangle was adjusted to reveal that the columns become constant:
.0,
.1,
.2,
.4,8,
.8,8,16,24,
16,8,16,24,24,32,56,64,
32,8,16,24,24,32,56,64,40,32,56,72,80,120,176,160,
64,8,16,24,24,32,56,64,40,32,56,72,80,120,176,160,72,32,56,72,80...
CROSSREFS
KEYWORD
nonn
AUTHOR
Omar E. Pol, Mar 07 2011, Mar 09 2011
STATUS
approved