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A126978 a(n) = 104n + 9977. 3
9977, 10081, 10185, 10289, 10393, 10497, 10601, 10705, 10809, 10913, 11017, 11121, 11225, 11329, 11433, 11537, 11641, 11745, 11849, 11953, 12057, 12161, 12265, 12369, 12473, 12577, 12681, 12785, 12889, 12993, 13097, 13201, 13305, 13409, 13513, 13617 (list; graph; refs; listen; history; internal format)
OFFSET

0,1

COMMENTS

Langton's Ant Superhighway, the start point (9977th iteration, J. Propp) and the period length for the Superhighway (104).

REFERENCES

C. Langton, "Studying Artificial Life with Cellular Automata," Physica D, vol. 22, pp. 120-149, 1986.

James Propp, "Further Ant-ics," Mathematical Intelligencer, 16 pp. 37-42, 1994.

P. Sakar, "A Brief History of Cellular Automata," ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 32, 2000.

LINKS

B. D. Swan, Table of n, a(n) for n=0,...,10000

Ed Pegg Jr, 2D Turing Machines .

S. Wolfram, 2D Turing Machines .

FORMULA

a(0)=9977, a(1)=10081, a(n)=2*a(n-1)-a(n-2) [From Harvey P. Dale, Dec 16 2011]

MATHEMATICA

104*Range[0, 40]+9977 (* or *) LinearRecurrence[{2, -1}, {9977, 10081}, 40] (* From Harvey P. Dale, Dec 16 2011 *)

CROSSREFS

Cf. A102127, A102358, A102369, A126979, A126980.

Sequence in context: A031856 A031858 A182696 * A188790 A190832 A043528

Adjacent sequences:  A126975 A126976 A126977 * A126979 A126980 A126981

KEYWORD

easy,nonn

AUTHOR

R. H. Barbour (bbarbour(AT)unitec.ac.nz), Mar 20 2007, Jun 12 2007

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